Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history… — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box,… — Ignatius Donnelly Copy Share Image
“The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. It was predicated on a searing critique of large corporations, particularly… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Europe and America’s populist right wants to turn the clock back to the days when men were men and the West ruled.… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand. — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Coming from Buffalo, N.Y., I recognize the distinct difference between inside-the-Beltway conservatives and lake-shore conservatives. It's populist conservatism. — Michael Caputo Copy Share Image
Trump might have a populist message that resonates with some voters, but the man doesn't care about any of the people he's… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the… — Kjell Magne Bondevik Copy Share Image
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
