Bigs Quote by Alexander Cockburn

“The unwholesome-looking little moral agent of destruction exulted silently in the possession of personal prestige, keeping in check this man armed with the defensive…

— Joseph Conrad

“Populism actually reinforces this elitism, because the celebration of ignorance cannot launch communications satellites, negotiate the rights of US citizens overseas, or provide for…

— Thomas M. Nichols

American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace, and many…

— Rick Wilson

“Populists, by contrast, will persist with their representative claim no matter what; because their claim is of moral and symbolic- not an empirical- nature,…

— Jan-Werner Müller

“Populism and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less worthy, or…

— David Brooks

Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities,…

— Dominic Grieve

The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan.

— Stacey Dash

“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority…

— Lee Hall

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Zedillo's lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the political system…

— Denise Dresser

“Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back from collapse,…

— Peter Prasad