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Quotes About Right-wing

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
~ James P. Hoffa
Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
~ Anthony Holden
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
~ Christopher Lasch
I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
~ Lech Walesa
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
~ Bassem Youssef
I was right wing in my outlook from a very early age, and during my service in the army, which is a melting pot, I was introduced to religious Zionism. I connected with that circle of people on an ideological basis.
~ Ayelet Shaked
What Fox News has become in 2020 is a conclusion of decades of right wing media and rhetoric against the rest of the media. In the '90s it was about media bias. In the 2000s it was about media bias. Now, the rhetoric is so much more extreme. It's about enemies of the people.
~ Brian Stelter
I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.
~ Jesse Metcalfe
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
~ Al Franken
I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.
~ Peter Higgs
El gabinete que anunció López Obrador era claramente de derecha. Los ministros que ocuparían las secretarías de Gobernación, Hacienda, Comunicaciones, Economía, Agricultura y Educación no eran ejemplos de radicales izquierdistas. Eran políticos que provenían del antiguo régimen o tecnócratas tradicionales. El jefe de gabinete era un mal empresario, multimillonario de extrema derecha.
~ Roger Bartra
desde que López Obrador fuera candidato a la presidencia en 2006 y 2012, se reveló claramente como un político conservador. Pero su aureola populista confundió a muchos, que lo siguieron tomando como un líder de izquierda, incluso radical, amenazador para la derecha y esperanzador para los progresistas.
~ Roger Bartra
Evangelical support for Prohibition and worries about "godless communism" during the Cold War pushed evangelicals toward the political right during the twentieth century. Opposition on the part of some to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal led to attenuated suspicions of capitalism and eventually to an embrace of commerce.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Because feminism is a movement for liberation of the powerless by the powerless in a closed system based on their powerlessness, right-wing women judge it a futile movement. Frequently they also judge it a malicious movement in that it jeopardizes the bargains with power that they can make; feminism calls into question for the men confronted by it the sincerity of women who conform without political resistance.
~ Andrea Dworkin
You can debate when the conservative movement became a racket - I nominate 1996, the year Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created Fox News Channel to monetize right-wing outrage - but there is no doubt it has long since passed that point.
~ Max Boot
When the extreme right-wing... charges forward with a defund Planned Parenthood, anti-Planned Parenthood focused message, what happens is that people rally even more around Planned Parenthood.
~ Tina Smith
I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.
~ Kris Kristofferson
I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.
~ Alastair Reynolds
While many liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in fact a real thing.
~ Kirsten Powers
I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.
~ Birch Bayh
Meanwhile the thinking person, by intellect usually left-wing but by temperament often right-wing, hovers at the gate of the Socialist fold.
~ George Orwell
The entire Detroit music community was opposed to the Vietnam war, racism, and every other right-wing idea we butted heads with, and we were all for human rights. When I heard soul music, I didn't hear racism. I heard music, and I liked it.
~ Scott Morgan
Anyone leading a violent rebellion must be prepared to make an honest assessment regarding the possible casualties to a minority population confronting a well-armed, wealthy majority with a fanatical right wing that would delight in exterminating thousands of black men, women and children.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the anti-Communist atmosphere of the Cold War, U.S. support of right-wing military dictatorships -Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Manuel Odria in Peru, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela - at the expense of outspoken nationalists or left-wing regimes, was rationalized in the name of national security.
~ Jon Lee Anderson