Christopher Lasch Quotes

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

The left has lost the common touch.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

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

We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligencia and the American electorate.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman - or boogeywoman, as it were. She's a frequent target of Republican ire for being too far to the left - and she's also a target among progressives for not being far left enough.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

It's a very beautiful word, populism. I'm proud to be a populist.

The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party.

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

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

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.