Preston Manning Quotes

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

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.

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.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

All cause groups, left and right, depend on who’s attacking them.

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.

My political opponents can have their pound of flesh … but they will not eat into my beliefs

Political controversies are never entered into with any wish to gain knowledge, but only a triumph for the party.

I want us to war over principles, policies, programs and alternative visions of the future ... but I want us to be able to do that without turning the place [the House of Representatives] into a political Beirut.

We’ve got the liberal bastards on the run, and we’re going to keep them on the run.

I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.

We want to put pressure on the defense.

It's absolutely fine to be a bit more reactive and not chase after the ball at times. But you cannot be passive.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.

I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.