Populist Quotes · Page 2

I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.

— David Slade

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

— Brian Eno

“A populist feeding anger and fear is more likely to get elected.”

— Louise Penny

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

— Preston Manning

I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have…

— Jeremy Scott

The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class - with all the economic pain and political turbulence that…

— Annie Lowrey

These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is…

— Irvine Welsh

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

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those…

— Tim McGraw

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

— Thomas Frank

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be…

— Helen Mirren

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is…

— Adam McKay

It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis…

— David Brooks

Trump is a populist in the same mold as the nineteenth-century Populists who gave their name to American grassroots political movements. Historians…

— Heather Cox Richardson

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the…

— Ed Koch

Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their…

— David Rockefeller

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

— Edgar Ramirez

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

— Peter Ferrara

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Matteo Salvini

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

— Shepard Fairey

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

— Bruce Braley

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

— Jeffrey Archer

There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.

— John Hickenlooper

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

— Jim Hightower

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the…

— Billy Idol

Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with…

— Van Jones

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

— Glenn Greenwald

I think Mitch McConnell and, to a degree, Paul Ryan - they do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to…

— Steve Bannon

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Rebecca Solnit

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who…

— Margaret MacMillan

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

— Brian Cox

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system…

— Jerrold Nadler

I am and I will remain a populist, because those who listen to the people are doing their job, whereas the radical…

— Matteo Salvini