Mark Hertsgaard Quotes

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

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

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.

You know that no son of mine could be a goddamn liberal.

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.

Our friends on the left never met an anti-Communist they liked.

Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.

The current attitude is pretty much the attitude we had in the CIA during the 1950s. When we analysed the operational climate and all the political forces in any given country, we had our friends and we had our enemies. There was no one in between. The friends were centre and Right wing social democrats, conservatives, liberals, in some cases all the way over to neo-fascists. The enemies were Left wing social democrats, socialists, Communists, all the way to those advocating armed struggle.

This difference between the two parties covers a wide range, and is indicative of the conservative thought of the one and the progressive thought of the other.

If anything, I'm to the left of Obama.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

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.

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 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.