Ken Loach Quotes

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

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.

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.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

It is clear that the radical left has taken over the Democratic Party, leaving behind the party of John F. Kennedy.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

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

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

I am not nor ever have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

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

Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country’s direst enemies are not “subversive” foreigners, but homegrown liberals.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

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

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.

The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles and Liberals. The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

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.