Tariq Ali Quotes

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

Campaigns are partisan. Governing should not be partisan.

We [Republicans] don’t need any new ideas.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

I think the Republican Party has become something of a personality cult.

I've never been a fan of party politics.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Centrism is bogus.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

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

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.