Political Fringe Quotes

If I could push a button and get rid of all these dumb people flying Nazi flags and have them never show up - They are a big problem for the Right.

The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that's an idea that's been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable.

At the turn of the last century, extremists were forced back to the political fringes while younger politicians resurrected the vitality of the original Republican vision. They recognized that the nation could only develop and grow by protecting equality of opportunity for hardworking Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder.

The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

The anti-European Tories were a fringe group - until they took over their whole party.

I'm as far outside of the mainstream political establishment as you can get.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.