Ideological Affiliation Quotes

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.

I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.

We are an ideological grass-roots group, and we use our faith to pick members.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

I predict you're going to see more and more of this shifting of al Qaeda fighters going over to ISIS because they are the game in town.

If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

Most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... [and] a body of sacred documents and heroes.

It is true he has never originated anything that would savor of progressiveness, but he has been close enough to this administration to know what it stands for.

How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?

An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.