David Blunkett Quotes

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

The media doesn't understand conservatives at all.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn't there any middle path?

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

The 'New York Times' undertakes extreme vetting against Republicans every single day.

The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.

Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so many as careerist, opportunist or attention-seeking.

I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long.

My media considers the left media to be the bullies on the playground.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.