Yair Lapid Quotes

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

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

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

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.

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.

That is when the Left is going to love America - when it is not America anymore.

The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

I've been politically radical my whole life, so when the left attacks, that hurts more.

Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.

The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.

For decades, the liberal media eviscerated the Religious Right and other conservatives for their own attacks against liberal social causes. Over time, the media labeled anyone who didn't agree with the Left's world view as intolerant.

It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing...

'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.

The left has lost the common touch.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

I'm not in the business of politics.

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

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.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

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

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.