Roger Ailes Quotes

Many conservative assumptions are made in reaction to liberal assumptions.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

I am not a centrist.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

Centrism is bogus.

The left hand of the right wing.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

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 think Republicans make a mistake when they seek to be 'Democrat light.'

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

Bush is no conservative.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

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

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

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

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

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

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