Detroit Tribune Quotes

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Politics is applesauce.

There is ample evidence that participation in an electoral process forces any party, regardless of ideology, to moderate its position if it wants to attract voters in large numbers.

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

Populism is an ideology that separates society into two homogeneous and antagonist groups.

I don't believe in populism.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

I love politics.

Populism is dangerous.

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

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

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

People’s Party.

That is simple my friend. Because politics is more complicated than physics.

Not parties, but principles.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform. But when the Communists abandoned reforms and championed a Soviet Union openly contemptuous of America while predicting its quick collapse, the same party lost all its hard-won influence. It became merely a bad word in the American language.

The people who vote in the primaries are at the ideological edge of their party.

Parliamentary representatives of the Communist Party shall not introduce or support reform measures.

Politics, you will observe, is the science of guessing right.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

A party of order and stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

This country is going so far right you are not even going to recognize it.

Political activity of political parties shall not be based on any religious background or foundation.