Richard Bond Quotes

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

There are voices in the Republican Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions.

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

Terror … is often the result of giving politics a sacred, absolute dimension.

We don't really have elections; we fight crusades. Each side usually believes that it, and it alone, represents the true faith.

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme"—

Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

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

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Almost any theory, even those espoused by self-proclaimed conservatives, can be held in an absolutistic way such that it poses a threat to institutional and political stability.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

The right hand doesn’t know what the far right hand is doing.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

There’s too much orthodoxy in the political process today.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.