Leon Trotsky Quotes

I don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.

I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

I ain't got no beef with Obama.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

[Richard M.] Nixon did not receive on the same wavelength I was at pains to broadcast on.

With the Evangelical Right, compromise is not possible on the issues of conflict. In former times of clashes with courts compromise has taken place.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

Donald Rumsfeld and Nelson Rockefeller were put on this planet to piss each other off.

We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text... that is the action of a coward!

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I don't accept the Zionist idea.