Michael J. Knowles Quotes

God’s Politics: Why the Right gets it wrong and the Left doesn’t get it.

I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

Conservatives always knew that the Left made a concerted effort to dominate in the entertainment field because it's such a fabulous way to plant the seed of an agenda. Sugar helps the medicine go down, as does seeing it on the silver screen or hearing it in a catchy pop hook.

The people's love of pumpkin spice and snobbish elites' derision of it suggest a subtle political reality: the pumpkin spice latte is America's most conservative drink.

Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.

The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity.

There's all kinds of envy out there on the Left.

For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics.

I'm not very into politics but I love watching shows like 'Last Week Tonight' - people come for the comedy and they stay for the interesting questions.

Eminem knows that Republicans buy songs - his songs - too. His message to them is to stop buying.

Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.

One of the many things I hate about Donald Trump is that he embodies a kind of very popular popular culture that, as near as I'm able to perceive and stomach, is of no quality whatsoever.

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

Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

For the Left, when ideology and reality conflict, ideology must win.

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid.