Kane Quotes

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.

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

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.

Republicans are not going to replace left wing social engineering with right wing engineering.

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.

… the two factions (of the Republican Party) are at daggers drawn over government’s role, which one side sees as indispensable, the other as insidious..

The left’s reflex is that if something is good then the government ought to provide it, and some conservatives are falling into the left’s political trap.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

I am not a centrist.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

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

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

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

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.