Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

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

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

The populist left loves power more than democracy, and it will fight to keep it at great cost.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

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.

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

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.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire to stay in office and not by any philosophy that might justify their doing so.

The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.

Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.

The so-called 'far right' defends the working class far more than the left does.