Quotes About Ideology

I'm a Republican; I'd say I'm a conservative Republican. My job as RNC chair is to elect Republicans all across this country.

I actually think that the Republicans are the party of jobs and the Democrats are the party of mobs.

The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.

I lined up with the Republicans because they were antitax, and I wanted to make a lot of money.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

I've always had a deep distaste, since 1984, for both Republicans and Democrats.

We, the FBI, don't investigate ideology, no matter how repugnant. When it turns to violence, we're all over it.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers.

As a fellow science fiction author, Heinlein largely raised me, and I resent it when some folks lazily dismiss Heinlein as a 'right winger' or even 'fascist.'

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

I would expect the fundamentalists to agree with me that democracy is incompatible with fundamentalist Islam. Moderate Muslims have to decide which side of the argument they are on.

With health care, somebody at some point decided that there was a bright line and that you had to pick sides. Well, I reject that view.

When the only two sides fighting are conservative - even if one of them is just conservative in appearance - then everyone loses. And women don't just lose; they're also used as cheap ammunition.

During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

There's significant movement as far to the left in our party as far as you can go, where people are trying to out-Bernie Bernie.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.