Carroll Quigley Quotes

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

I look at that fellow. I watch his smart-alack manner and his British clothes and that New Dealism, everlasting New Dealism in everything he says and does, and I want to shout, Get out, Get out. You stand for everything that has been wrong with the United States for years.

There are some Republicans in Congress who have leaned so far to the right, that they could fall out of the Capitol.

In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.

There are no more liberals. They've all been mugged.

Politicization led to an intelligence output that obscured understanding of al Qaeda’s sources of strength and support.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.