A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class. — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
The New York Times had a headline on its website - Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn't… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
German dominance in the EU is a fact of life. But for historical reasons, it would be the last country to be… — Anthony Glees Copy Share Image
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings.… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist… — William Blum Copy Share Image
The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because… — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I just think that the skepticism about truth has almost completely flipped - from being something associated with generally left-leaning progressives to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
