W. Kamau Bell Quotes

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

Liberalism is today charged in the mind of most Americans with nothing less than national, racial and spiritual treason.

When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

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.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

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

I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

We are America. They [Democrats] are not America.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest.

Trump was our last shot. I kind of thought it was Romney, and then lo and behold, like a miracle, Trump comes along. I still believe in Trumpism. I have no regrets for ferociously supporting him. What choice did we have?

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

The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.

We all now have to decide whether we're comfortable using this word, weather fascism is too over the top to use in this context of our politics right now in our country or whether it helps because it's accurate, to basically describe this as America's Sir Oswald Mosley moment.

A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.