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52 Populist quotes by 43 unique authors

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the… — Jim Hightower
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take… — Thomas Frank
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party. — Ed Gillespie
The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten. — King Albert II
From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against… — William Blum
I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not… — Ricky Gervais
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically… — Robert A. Heinlein
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including… — Jim Hightower
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic… — Jim Hightower
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't… — Ed Koch
It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not… — Tim McGraw
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a… — Dee Dee Myers
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette… — Camille Paglia
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep'… — Rob Sheffield
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope,… — Greg Graffin
Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does… — Mark Levin
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a… — Hannah Arendt
America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash… — Mohamed ElBaradei
Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy. — Glenn Greenwald
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits… — Jerrold Nadler
Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the Reagan generation and… — Ben Shapiro
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population… — Ellen Willis
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class. — Bruce Braley
The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare. — Bruce Braley
The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion. — Bruce Braley

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