Affair Quote by Umberto Eco

Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.

— Gavin Esler

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather…

— Diane Paulus

Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.

— Elif Safak

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

— Bruce Braley

“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic…

— Henry Jenkins

As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not…

— Vladimir Putin

If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has…

— Irvine Welsh

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

— Bill Keller

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy,…

— Jim Hightower

The rise of populism has steadily coalesced movements of millions of people around its divisive us-against-them rhetoric, motivating so many more people to become…

— Jo Swinson

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