Tom Steyer Quotes

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

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

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

I can't go out with a Republican.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

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

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country’s direst enemies are not “subversive” foreigners, but homegrown liberals.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

Liberal hypocrites like Mr. Weinstein were a big reason 63 million Americans voted for a conservative hypocrite like Mr. Trump.

In truth, the 'populist anger' fueling Trump's coalition is fundamentally different from Sanders' 'progressive populism.' The superficial similarities between the two end when they talk about solutions.