Fernando Haddad Quotes

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

The left has lost the common touch.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

There are things that I can agree with from both sides: perhaps the civil libertarian issues of the Left and also the economic freedom issues of the Right while still rejecting the big-government tendencies of both sides of the political spectrum.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

Long live the workers' republic that the Workers Party fights for!

Conservatives read books and liberals don’t.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

In time the Democratic party will fade away and we will have a capitalistic party and a socialistic party.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

Extremism of the right should not be answered by extremism of the left, because neither extremism will work. The country has been wise in avoiding extremism