Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

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.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

The menace is ideology, the dogma of politics. It is a prison that makes the American experiment impossible.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle.

Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

The liberal people are the violent people in this country. The Democrat Party are the violent people.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

There are too many political moderates in America.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

We are Republicans, and don't propose to have our party identify itself with the party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.

Leftist things have done terrible harm to our party in the past … Socialism may be ruined by rightism and may also be ruined by leftism. China must guard against rightism but should mainly guard against leftism.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

The Solid South ….The sectional unity of the Southern people has been the governing idea and bane of their politics …. Every Presidential canvass becomes a battle between the sections.

Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

Politicians are trapped in their own views.

I have never seen American politics so divisive…. We can’t have Congressman not voting for things America needs because it is not popular in their district. We have to put America first.

Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.