Quotes About Ideology

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

I'm doing another pilot about a black Democratic pundit who's married to a white Republican pundit. And the purpose of me wanting to do that show - and ABC sort of supported me in the way they did - is because I feel like, you know, the political system is like an old married couple.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.

Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters do not have a monopoly on principle.

Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of economic harmony into a justification for supporting industrialists, who were the nation's job creators.

I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest.

The left has become increasingly dogmatic on immigration. Any position short of supporting open borders is described as racist. That's nonsensical.

The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West.

Liberals cannot win in the battle of ideas, so they resort to banning or suppressing ideas they don't like.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman's right to choose and what kind of justices belong on the Supreme Court.

The most contentious Supreme Court battles are when a Republican nominates someone to replace a liberal justice.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

Exiting the ideological cave, where all our questions are answered and everyone we know agrees with us, is the hardest and most significant step we can take. But if we don't take that step, then we will leave this life no closer to the truth than when we entered it. And that is exactly what it is to live a life not worth living, even if it proves to be the most pleasant sort of existence.

If you boil the strange soup of contemporary right-wing ideology down to a sort of bouillon cube, you find the idea that things are not connected to other things, that people are not connected to other people, and that they are all better off unconnected. The core values are individual freedom and individual responsibility: yourself for yourself, on your own.