Patricia Ireland Quotes

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and Presidential Candidate once so harshly denounced.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

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

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Barry Goldwater made conservatism so unattractive I wouldn't have voted for it myself.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. As a result, Obama is to the right of Richard Nixon on most issues. And there is we believe, certainly some space to exploit there. And we, VICE, aim to exploit it.

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.