Abi Morgan Quotes

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.

Everyone who knows me, they know that I am not a socialist.

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

Mrs Thatcher was a mirror-image Marxist. Everything that Marx abhorred she thought was good

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I am not a centrist.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

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.

The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades.

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

Neoconservatism' once had a real meaning - back in the 1970s. But the label has now become meaningless. With many of those who are described as neocons, including me, fleeing the Trumpified right, the term's sell-by date has passed.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word 'socialism' loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans.

During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

The terms 'progressive' and 'liberal' have virtually nothing to do with each other anymore. And if you are a classical liberal, you certainly aren't a leftist.

Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.