Thomas Frank Quotes

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

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

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here's the reason why - more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.