Geert Wilders Quotes

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

The left has lost the common touch.

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that's not making us connect with a lot of voters.

I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

The working class is very under-represented in politics, literature, and everywhere else.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

It would be a dreadful calamity to see the nation divided into two parties, one containing the bulk of the property owners and conservative people, the other the bulk of the wageworkers and the less prosperous people generally; each party insisting on demanding much that is wrong, and each party sullen and angered by real and fancied grievances..

The differences between Rand Paul and millennials are vast - not just on economics, but on social issues that matter to young people, too.

No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.

In contrast to them, Republicans argue, are minorities, organized workers, and women, who demand government policies that can only be paid for with tax dollars sucked from white men.

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.

There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class... I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.

There are issues in this country that a lot of people feel strongly about.

The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots.

What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.