Quotes About Ideology

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

David Cameron can change the branding of the party, but he can't change the beliefs.

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

It's easy to say, 'I'm anti-capitalist,' or, 'I'm anti-Western decadence,' without having to be challenged about what that actually means, or how you might go about reshaping society to make it better.

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

I came out of a lower-middle-class background. At that time, everyone used to define themselves: Stalinist, Maoist, whatever. I thought they meant 'miaowist'. Seriously! Something to do with cats.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

I used to vote Democrat.

I started out as a Democrat.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

I'm proud to be a Democrat.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat.

I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.