Salman Rushdie Quotes

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

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.

I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it - and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left - is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism. It's becoming the real right in the United States.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

Bush is no conservative.

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

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

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

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

The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I started out as a Democrat.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

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.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

America today is going to the left and not to the right.

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

Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.'

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist.