Ideological Identity Quotes

I’m extremely conservative but I’m not mad at anybody about it.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

I am happy to be called a 'commie' as long as I am one, so I should know if I am or not. I don't know what I am.

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

I'm a progressive.

I'm really only interested in building this intellectual movement. The I.D.W. has bigger goals than anyone's buzz or celebrity.

There are Marxists and there are people that are socialists. But the label of Marxist takes on a whole new meaning. Even socialist for a while took on a whole new meaning.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

I don’t think I’m all that conservative.

My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our relatives and neighbors were Republicans, so they were self-conscious in their liberalism and took it as emblematic of their ability to think for themselves.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

Who is the conservative movement, where is it located, and who runs it, and who's in charge of it? They can't even agree within the conservative movement who is a conservative and who isn't.

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

Stop calling me communist. Stop calling the rest of us communists. You've got to stand up for what you believe should be the American government's spirit, not what you're just attacking people's credibility.

I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.