Paul Krugman Quotes

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.

I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

The Never Trumpers, many of them are establishment types or - and very important here - wannabe establishment types.

Trump realized that you had to drive a stake through the heart of this establishment and that millions of Americans do not feel represented by this sort of clique in Washington.

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.

It's comprised of both Republicans and Democrats and their membership in this club known as the establishment, party affiliation is second or third in terms of your qualifications to be in the club.

Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

The real question is not what's wrong with Trump, what's up with Trump, but what's up with the establishment.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] is as steeped and deep inside the establishment as anybody in this campaign.

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is neither right-wing nor left-wing in the traditional sense.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

Donald Trump needs to understand the Republican establishment - they're not going to be his friend, either.