80s Quote by Ted Nordhaus

At the turn of the last century, extremists were forced back to the political fringes while younger politicians resurrected the vitality of the original…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push…

— Cyndi Lauper

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years…

— Ted Nordhaus

What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could…

— Shelby Steele

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s…

— Sam de Jong

Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So,…

— Rutger Bregman

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a…

— Daniel Yankelovich

The rise of a new kind of political science in the 1960s has been driving a wedge between political insiders and voters ever since.…

— Heather Cox Richardson

In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our…

— James G. Watt

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence…

— Noreena Hertz

In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the extremists' control…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right…

— Maajid Nawaz