Michael Leunig Quotes

I'm as left-wing as you can get.

Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.

I have been left-wing always, from childhood.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

I started out as a Democrat.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

I am not nor ever have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I've been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside police stations. I've made speeches at street rallies, in prisons and universities and at pubs.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

I'm a real left-winger. I fancy Jeremy Corbyn!

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

I am proud to be a progressive.

I dislike many of Mr Corbyn's opinions - his belief in egalitarianism and high taxation, his enthusiasm for comprehensive schools, his readiness to talk to terrorists, and his support for the E.U.

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did.

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.