Margaret MacMillan Quotes

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Anybody who is against that obviously must be a communist.

It's a very beautiful word, populism. I'm proud to be a populist.

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.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I see particular commonalities in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just.

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

For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman - or boogeywoman, as it were. She's a frequent target of Republican ire for being too far to the left - and she's also a target among progressives for not being far left enough.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disintegrating lives of working-class whites while giving these voters a reassuring but false promise of their restoration to the center of American life.

The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism and English nationalism.

The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.

Even for a lot of people in the Valley who are more conservative, a lot of them find Trump to be incredibly offensive and a blowhard.

Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.

I think a lot of things have become associated with the Right. For example, an unapologetic commitment to progress and modernity is now almost always associated with neo-conservatism whereas it traditionally used to be associated with left-wing thinking and moving society forward.

The Republican party is changing. It's becoming more populist.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.

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

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

For the conservatives, Lula is seen as someone who constantly seeks demarcation and even rupture. For the Left, however, Lula is always seen as someone who conciliates, as he acknowledges the role of owners in improving the conditions of workers.