Quotes About Ideology

The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

My responsibility is to ask, 'How can I serve my ideology and my voters?'

To anyone who sees himself as right-wing, I say you should vote right-wing.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.

I was born to a Likud which had light; there were no shadows.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

I worry about global anti-Semitism - not just as a bad idea that originates from bad people, but also as something that arises as a challenge to global order.

Just because I don't want to stand on stage with Richard Spencer or Baked Alaska doesn't make me any less conservative.

I was becoming post-ideological.

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don't want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

The BJP believes in building its individual strength.

If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.

Fundamentalists call defrauding the government "bleeding the beast" and regard it as a virtuous act.

But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.

Religious zealots like bin Laden, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara,* and Dan Lafferty are common to every age, just as zealots of other stripes are.

President George W. Bush, who believes he is an instrument of God and characterizes international relations as a biblical clash between forces of good and evil.

We live in a center-right country. Now watch me smile oleaginously.

The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.

political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12

he wanted to win. Republicans in the Texas of 1963–64 were Goldwater men, not Rockefeller men. So George Bush was a Goldwater man.