Cornel West Quotes

When liberals are behind something, I'm automatically suspicious.

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

I'm liking my role as left-wing is my preferred position.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand.

I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

We often mock Barack Obama for whining about Fox News. So it's now what Donald Trump is doing? Should we be mocking him for doing the same thing? I know. It is hypocritical if we don't.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.

Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

The left, if you get them honest, will admit they know they're a minority.

I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican."

Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in the World Trade Center, he deserves no platform alongside Wesley Clark or a seat next to Jimmy Carter or praise for his pseudo-dramas from high Democrats.

The left have not the ability to get into reality in any way, shape, manner, or form.

I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?