Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.
The core principle of Wahhabism is anti-diverse.
What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.
We have got to be open. We cannot be a single-issue party or a single-philosophy party.” …. I am concerned about the undercurrent of rigid conservatism where you don’t dare not toe the line.
Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.
Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong?
I have a very clear idea of what the Freedom Caucus has done to this country by terrorizing both the Republican Party and the America people.
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire.
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
