Zac Goldsmith Quotes

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

I am not a centrist.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word.

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

He was a Communist. He was a terrorist...

If a narrow-minded FBI agent slipped into Aaron McGruder’s Los Angeles penthouse apartment, his eyes would get wide. Just inside the front door is a photograph of Fidel Castro riding into Havana Jan. 1, 1959.

Don’t get involved with any political stuff.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

The world has changed. People who care nothing about norms can no longer be dismissed as a fringe. For generations, left-wing activists have instructed students and other groups that norms are the building blocks of a rigged system that deprives them of power and denies their “selfless” desires. We don’t want to acknowledge what this has wrought. We have norms because they safeguard foundational principles, such as due process, the presumption of innocence, and freedom from unreasonable and unwarranted police prying. But the Left is no longer attached to those principles.

ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.

Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.