Hilary Mantel Quotes

The future of the Republican Party should be tapping into... the feeling of belonging and meaning and pride that comes with being part of this whole 'America First' movement.

Being Conservative is only another way of being British.

The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.

We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark.

I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.

I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist.

Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good.

I'm not a moderniser. I accept that things like escalators do need an upgrade every now and then, but I think the fundamental principles of Conservatism have a long thread running through them that does not need to be modernised.

'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.

I think that a good portion of the 'Institutional Left' hates the building blocks of America.

In more tangible terms, the pumpkin spice latte shares many of the qualities that endear conservative politicians to their supporters and arouse disgust in their opponents. It's blunt, common, and unapologetically American.

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

The Great Seal has got it all - everything liberals despise is there, front and center.

I'm a nationalist and populist.

If you want a politically incorrect conservative, that's me.

In my view, the Conservative Party is the party best equipped to defend the British way of life.

Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.

For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn't focus too much on the bad.

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be 'great again.'

You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.

I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.

Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.

I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.