Beppe Grillo Quotes

Centrism is bogus.

I am not a centrist.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

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.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

The left hand of the right wing.

There are too many political moderates in America.

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