Ann Widdecombe Quotes

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

I told Donald Trump, 'This isn't a campaign, this is a movement.' Look at what's happening. The American people are not happy with their government.

The very act of protest is dangerous in Venezuela.

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

In the last years, the anti-government paradigm has led us into one blind alley after another.

I am against revolutions. We have had negative experience with coups and rallies in the past. We remember the shooting at the White House in Moscow The new Russian protest is the most beautiful, most peaceful, most intelligent protest in the world—not a single broken window, not a single burned care or victim.

Fuck the Congress. Send the stuff now!

Large crowds have gathered in the streets. The pervading spirit among the masses is resistance to Lincoln’s administration, and everywhere that determination is manifest.

The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

I'd rather form my own party than ever join Ukip. We could call it the Widdy Mob. I'm joking.

The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.

It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.