Joe Strummer Quotes

Our friends on the left never met an anti-Communist they liked.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.

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

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.

My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.

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

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

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.

We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

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

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.