Naomi Klein Quotes

A ruthless partisan [who] does not have within his conscience those scruples which the country has a right to expect from the President of the United States.

[Huey Long is] suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

The state of affairs in our nation's capital is a national disgrace. It is an international embarrassment and dishonors the name of our first president, George Washington.

That the politicians are permitted to carry on the same old disgraceful campaign from year to year is as insulting to the people as would be a gang of thieves coming back to a town they had robbed, staging a parade, and inviting the citizens to fall in and cheer.

[Describing member of Congress:] 80 percent were hypocrites. 80 percent, liars. 80 percent, serious sinners.... There is always boozing and floozing.

The Republicans have lost their way. Principle has been swapped for power, and they have gotten neither. They deserve to have lost.

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

It was and is one of the evils of our state, that personal infamy is no bar to the exercise of political rights; that a man may walk out of jail and take his seat in the highest places even as a legislator.

I do hate Trump. I find him to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up. It is one thing after another, daily.

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

President Trump used the office of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal, political benefit.

The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has become.

Jim Comey is either dense or he's pathological.

What stalwart Republican would stop Trump from profiteering for his businesses from the White House the way he's gamed his companies and the tax code for decades, or prevent him from letting his adult children milk their father's position to benefit his supposed 'blind trust?'

Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have literally sold everything they have to sell. They have sold their honesty. They've sold their integrity. They've sold America down the river. They have sold everything in order to amass critical personal wealth.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.