Populist Quotes

People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there…

— Barack Obama

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

— Mara Liasson

Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor…

— Charles Schumer

I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Oswald Mosley`s movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary…

— Rachel Maddow

Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds,…

— Anonymous

Has Donald Trump ever called himself a populist? I don't think Donald Trump's ever called himself a populist. I think other people…

— Rush Limbaugh

Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation…

— Fernando Henrique Cardoso

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying…

— Camille Paglia

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll…

— Joss Whedon

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

— Tina Brown

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to…

— Christopher Hitchens

[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can…

— Peter Ferrara

For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake…

— Rebecca Solnit

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.

— Victor Davis Hanson

Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le…

— Van Jones

You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist…

— Van Jones

I tell the truth and they call me a fascist, a racist, an ugly, dirty, nasty, xenophobic populist.

— Matteo Salvini

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was…

— Thomas Frank

Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the…

— Ben Shapiro

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator…

— J. G. Ballard

Never underestimate a populist. We have come to a moment where language is very important. Saying the media is the number one…

— Edgar Ramirez

I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington.

— Ross Douthat

Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in…

— Chip Berlet