Steven Weber Quotes

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Liberals always blame the other guy.

The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

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

The party lines don't change, that's what makes them a party and you'd be a fool to think that just because there's a black man in there it's not gonna change the real foundation of the system. Especially when you look at his largest contributor to his campaign, AIG, one of the culprits in the economic meltdown itself.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

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

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.