Ralph Klein Quotes

Street lights, dog-doo and parking meters are not my cup of tea.

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

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

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

Socialism and democracy are pests.

Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn. He still hasn't rejoined the party; it's not left wing enough for him.

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand.

I love the city. I love the energy of New York and what happens here. But I'm very happy I don't live in the city on a daily basis, because I really do spend a great deal of my time, when I'm not on the road, in my studio - everyday, everyday, everyday.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.

I don't believe that the Democratic party has anything to do with the Left. We have two political parties in the US: a right wing party and a right centrist party. That's the Democrats. I laugh when people describe Barack Obama as a socialist president. As a socialist musician, I'll tell you when we have a socialist president. We don't have one now, not even close.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.