One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
“I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live. Where's that? Well, in our nation's capital and New York… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction? — William S. Lind Copy Share Image
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I think that our reliance on dynasty is part of the problem here, because dynasty is inherently undemocratic. It's a very entitled… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
Cheerleading is a part of you. You live it all the time. People will judge you based upon it, but you can't… — Kacy Catanzaro Copy Share Image
The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say… — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image