Quotes About Ideology

We will not waste 30 years of our lives dealing with extremist ideas; we will destroy them today.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

I refuse to go along with the status quo of more wasteful federal spending, and I refuse to let the Obama Administration continue to force their misguided ideology through regulatory overreach.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.

Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

When people are in the thrall of poisonous ideology, it's really not all about deliberate ill will, or inherent hatred, or a lack of intelligence. It's about the unbelievable destructiveness and staying power of bad ideas and about finding ways to equip people with the tools they need to fight them.

We've got to, in many ways, start thinking more like mayors who think about issues as problems that need to be solved as opposed to an issue through a specific ideological bent. Americans would be much better served and they'd be a lot happier with their elected officials.

If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will one day espouse the communist ideology. But nowhere does it say we cannot live in peace with the U.S.S.R. In the nuclear age, there is truly no alternative.

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

We have two political parties in this country; we cannot have one of them be abandoned to complete nutcases. We've got to have two good political parties.

We cannot allow Brexit to be driven by narrow and divisive Tory ideology.

We cannot ignore the networks where there is an ideological battle going on.

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

The Democrats' radicalism does not end with illegal immigration and health care. It extends into other aspects of their policy platforms.

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.