Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right

Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that. Look at what's happening on our side. I mean, it's atrocious. It is actually embarrassing.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

The Democratic Party eats its young before the election, and then they weep and wail when they lose.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.