Emile-Auguste Chartier Alain Quotes

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

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

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

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

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

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

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

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

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

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