Mehdi Hasan Quotes

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

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

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the center and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down …

This is the extreme left's problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don't listen to and understand Americans, you'll pay the price at the ballot box.

I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

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.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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

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

We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

Bigger Than His Party.