Fear Quote by Richard Edelman

Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.

— David Harsanyi

To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to…

— Mairead Corrigan

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of…

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Populism is dangerous.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are clearly not…

— Vladimir Putin

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

— John Adams

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

— Jane Mayer

No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates…

— John Adams

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

— Jill Stein

Politics has long been a place where fear and loathing are exploited: fear of progress, fear of the unknown, fear of the other, fear…

— S.E. Cupp

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing…

— Tariq Ramadan