End Quote by Daniel Hannan

As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

— Kofi Annan

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

— Bruce Braley

“Populism is not conservatism, which by definition entails resistance to public whims. Conservatives who seek to use populism for their own ends inevitably make…

— Bret Stephens

Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or…

— Molly Ivins

There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own…

— Jim Hightower

If populism means reducing the gap between the people and the elite, giving sovereignty - the fullness of sovereignty - back to the people,…

— Giuseppe Conte

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

— Preston Manning

The word 'populism' was everywhere in 2016. Political leaders claiming to speak for the people have achieved significant victories in Europe, Asia, and, with…

— Margaret MacMillan

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

The populists are right in one key area: voters want jobs and equitable growth, and can hardly be faulted for that. The challenge is…

— Arancha Gonzalez