Charles Barkley Quotes

If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'

Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile and you look at my profile, I'm the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein's the one percent. She appeals to one percent.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals.

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

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

Politics turns on emotion.

It is impossible to take politics out of politics.

American political life has reached the stage where a vocal and powerful group uses "liberal" as a term of contempt.... Never before in our history has this been true. Liberals and conservatives have disagreed and, on occasion, have stoutly fought each other; but not in the lifelong recollection of the speaker has any similar attempt been made to convert an honorable word for a socially useful attitude into a sling of mud to be thrown at a political opponent.

There is nothing wrong with God, and the flag is good as is the family, but what I resent is that the Republicans use these as a cover for their support of big money.

The political tendencies of the various social classes are based on a correct practical instinct.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

It would be a dreadful calamity to see the nation divided into two parties, one containing the bulk of the property owners and conservative people, the other the bulk of the wageworkers and the less prosperous people generally; each party insisting on demanding much that is wrong, and each party sullen and angered by real and fancied grievances..

Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.