Extremist Quotes · Page 4

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

— Charles Michel

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

— Christopher Lasch

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

— George W. Bush

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

— Richard M. Nixon

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

— Imran Khan

Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

— Maajid Nawaz

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

— Porter Goss

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

— Jon Ronson

“liberalism and democracy, with all of their limitations, are what remains after every utopia and extremist scheme based on blood and territory…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists…

— Barack Obama

The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that…

— Alexis Tsipras

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist…

— Jean-Francois Cope

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges…

— Glenn Greenwald

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some…

— Joichi Ito

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about…

— Peter T. King

Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists -- but there's never a backlash, no…

— Hank Williams, Jr

[Donald Trump] is talked about enormous loss that we've had in this country by allowing radical Islamic extremists to run rampant without…

— Benjamin Carson

It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in…

— Andre Vltchek

The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous…

— Barack Obama

In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the…

— Benazir Bhutto

Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they…

— John Yoo

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're…

— Evan Thomas

If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy,…

— Claudette Colvin

I'm not an extremist. And I disagree with Saudis who are calling for regime change and stuff like that.

— Jamal Khashoggi

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

— Neil Young

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

— Ted Nugent

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

— Helen Suzman

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

— Vicente del Bosque

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

— Max Boot

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

— Ronald Reagan

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

— Sushma Swaraj

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

— George W. Bush

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

— James Nicoll

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,

— Denis Hayes

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

— Nelson Mandela