Clarence Thomas Quotes

We started out as far to the left as we could.

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I'm not a conservative of any kind.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

I'm liking my role as left-wing is my preferred position.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

I am not an anarchist, but I am anarchistical.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive.

I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.

I am not the progressive Koch brother.

I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.