A. Alan Borovoy Quotes

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.

I am not a centrist.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

Centrism is bogus.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

Many conservative assumptions are made in reaction to liberal assumptions.

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.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

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

The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

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.

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

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

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

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I often envy my colleagues on the right and the left for whom no vote is hard.