Quotes About Ideology

I'm in the camp that says that if you're to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

The Conservative party, like many others, is constantly grappling with issues of community cohesion and how you can express your core values without becoming authoritarian and over-prescriptive.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.

There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

In a vast and diverse country like India, a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.

The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or fall according to our individual efforts alone; that billionaires amass vast amounts of wealth because they are entrepreneurial, plucky, go-getting geniuses.

All the fantasies of Trump-Bannon nationalism require a vastly expanded state, with greater powers over the economy and society.

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

When I talk about democratic socialist, I'm not looking at Venezuela. I'm not looking at Cuba. I'm looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden.

When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Vermont's a very liberal state.

Around the world, including in the U.K., a version of Right-wing politics is growing that is based on dividing societies.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.