Thomas Pynchon Quotes

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

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

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or of Humdrum?

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the center and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down …

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. As a result, Obama is to the right of Richard Nixon on most issues. And there is we believe, certainly some space to exploit there. And we, VICE, aim to exploit it.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

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.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

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

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.