Quotes About Ideology

It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

I believe that religion and politics should not mix. Both should be a part of somebody's life - but not together.

Congress started mixing politics with religion. BJP perfected it.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

I think liberals would love to see the conservative party be more moderate, more middle of the road. I mean, my gosh, what do you call John McCain? Some would argue, what do you call Mitt Romney?

The history of the modern Republican Party is the story of moderates being driven out and conservatives taking over - and then of those conservatives in turn being ousted by those even further to the right.

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

The policies the Left wants to push are both morally and financially bankrupt.

If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here's the reason why - more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.

Discorde de alguém da direita e ele, provavelmente, vai pensar que você é estúpido, errado, tolo, um bobo. Discorde de alguém da esquerda e ele, provavelmente, vai pensar que você é egoísta, traidor da causa, insensível, possivelmente mau14

The vision of the left, and I think many conservatives underestimate this, is really a more attractive vision in itself. The only reason for not believing in it is, it doesn't work. If the world were the way the left conceives it to be, it would be a better world than the way the right conceives it to be. It just happens that the world is not that way.

Liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good — and show very little interest in the actual consequences for others, even when liberal policies are leaving havoc in their wake.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps, and each side viewed the other with suspicion.