David Sedaris Quotes

Donald Trump may not speak explicitly of 'who we are,' but with his promise to make America great again, he engages in his own kind of identity politics, signaling that the nation has lost its sense of self. That gets to people.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism and English nationalism.

Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.

I would delete Donald Trump. I would delete Hillary Clinton. I would delete the man who was responsible for Brexit.

Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

You might have some people that disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America.

I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

There is less Francophobia in your country than there is anti-Americanism in my country.

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritative systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

The fight for ideals can no longer take the form of fight between nations, because the lines of division on moral questions are within the nations themselves and intersect the political frontiers.

This is the core claim of populism. Only some of the people are really the people.

Trump was elected, in large part, to disrupt everything that the WEF represents.

Do not let anyone get away with the argument that tearing our country out of one of the most successful partnerships in our history is somehow a great act of patriotism. It is not.

The French want less Europe and more France.

The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I think it's been really stressful; it's been really scary.

I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.

Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks.

I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.