Milos Zeman Quotes

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.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Terror … is often the result of giving politics a sacred, absolute dimension.

There is a segment of the right that doesn't care about winning, what I call zealotry masquerading as principle.

[The John Birch Society] has attracted a lunatic fringe that is now assuming serious proportions.

Ideology knows no boundaries.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.