John Hume Quotes

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

Military force can't defeat ideology.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

… the intersection of ideology and incompetence.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

You cannot fight a people who are fighting for an ideology with no ideas of your own.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

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

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

The left hand of the right wing.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.