Ideological Divergence Quotes

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

My father's politics did not influence mine. In fact, we disagreed on a fair amount of stuff.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.

Muslim views are not a monolithic blob.

Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.