Kris Kristofferson Quotes

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

In the Republican party, crazy is a constituency.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

Let no one say ... that radicalism is the exaggeration of liberalism; no, it is its antipodes, its extreme opposite. Radicalism is nothing more than an exaggeration of despotism; and never has despotism taken a more odious form.

The worst enemy of the new radicals are the old liberals.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

The nationalist right and the nebulously but fervently revolutionary left found each other once more in Fascism with its double face of conservatism and subversion.

There are no modern successful societies that do not deal with the issues raised by Populists and Fabianists but also avoid going to one of these extremes. The modern battle for power in democartic socities is between Populism and Fabianism.

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?

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.

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.

No we can't cast ourselves as liberals.

I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

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

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.