Am Quote by Harry Oppenheimer

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

— Will Self

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure…

— Charles Baxter

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as…

— Kenneth Clarke

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

— Roxane Gay

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

— Ron Reagan

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

— Eric Hoffer

“For present-day politicians there are only political points to be made from such statements, and the larger the sin the larger the outrage, the…

— Douglas Murray

When I used to criticise Indira Gandhi and Emergency I was not part of any party. I was just a social activist.

— Shatrughan Sinha

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views,…

— Manuel Puig

I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.

— Zohran Mamdani

I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend.…

— Liam Fox

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

— David Stockman