Jens Nordvig Quotes

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

There are too many political moderates in America.

How effortlessly religious dogma has become intertwined with political ideology since September 11

Populism is strong in places with weak party systems because political parties exist precisely to form governments as well as legitimate oppositions. When identity politics predominates, populists will prosper.

The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump's specific faults might actually be propping up American liberalism.

The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

The mishandling of the migration question in Europe has certainly created a very fertile ground for protest parties.

The only person I think I actually do dislike is John McDonnell. I actually do think he's a nasty piece of work because he's an IRA apologist.

Politics is awful.

We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.

By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.

The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.

Most people want a normal centrist approach. But politicians in the center have to show them results.

The most characteristic aspects of the Clintons, a political couple who might otherwise largely see themselves as practical-minded centrist consensus builders, is, of course, how much personal hatred they inspire.

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.

The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

I am a lady and the leader of a national party.

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.