Sam Gyimah Quotes

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

I would delete Donald Trump. I would delete Hillary Clinton. I would delete the man who was responsible for Brexit.

Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant... We need big change. We've got to get back control of our country.

Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

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.

Britain's withdrawal from the E.U., like Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, is based on a false belief in self-reliance.

One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader.

If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

I'm an economic nationalist. I am an 'America first' guy. And I have admired nationalist movements throughout the world, have said repeatedly strong nations make great neighbors. I've also said repeatedly that the ethno-nationalist movement, prominent in Europe, will change over time. I've never been a supporter of ethno-nationalism.

The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I think it's been really stressful; it's been really scary.

I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.

Politics now is fractured. The rising tide of nationalism and populism threatens to consume our politics. Whether it is Trump or Putin abroad, or Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage at home, our political order is increasingly dominated by forces that seek to divide us.

Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.

For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isn't merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.