Maxime Bernier Quotes

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

You make a good politician, but you've got to develop a philosophy.

The Republicans have a “me too” candidate running on a “yes but” platform, advised by a “has been” staff.

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.

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

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party—democratic or totalitarian—through study and comparison of principles.

I don’t have an ideology.

I dread the reveries of you philosophic politicians.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the party membership that dictates the language, and the membership relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned..

Highly popular and unpopular Presidents do not engage in policy pandering.

Vision is not political rhetoric

Democratic politics—that is modern mass politics—is a battlefield in which the most important move is that which decides what the battle is about, what the issue is.

The Republican National Convention was a rage-athon featuring a parade of hemorrhoidal has-beens.

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire to stay in office and not by any philosophy that might justify their doing so.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring, avoid talking about laws; they avoid talking about principles. They talk about 'our values.' But values can change, and all our packets of 'values' seem to be getting smaller.

The BJP decides its own policies.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.