Populist Quotes - Page 5

• We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.

  Eli Pariser

  Country, Artist, Impact

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• Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

  Jim Hightower

  Otoño, Gobierno, Gente

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• The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

  Chris Hedges

  Objectivity, Essence, Promise

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.76, Nation Books

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• The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

  Andrew Sullivan

  Party, Men, Legacy

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• The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

  William Gibson

  Giving, Trying, Architecture

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• Los fascistas están floreciendo políticamente en Francia e Italia, y ahora llega el asesinato de Pim Fortuyn, un político populista que podría haberlo hecho lo suficientemente bien en las próximas elecciones holandesas como para mantener el equilibrio de poder en el parlamento de ese país. Pero es la difamación generalizada de los judíos lo que mejor revela que los europeos son evidentemente incapaces de aprender de su historia. Francia se lleva la palma en antisemitismo.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Country, Balance, Done

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• Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Real, Campaigns

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.

  Anne Applebaum

  Christian, Party, Political

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist. He's more of the corporatist. He's less incompetent. He's trying to at least turn toward people who can put a decision-making process. And he's trying to adjust to the job. And so whatever one thinks of him, he is certainly a learning creature.

  David Brooks

  Pensar, Gente, Intentar

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

  Preston Manning

  Thinking, Past, Western

  Fuente: www.cbc.ca

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• Has Donald Trump ever called himself a populist? I don't think Donald Trump's ever called himself a populist. I think other people have called him a populist, and other people have called Steve Bannon a populist. But I don't think Trump's ever called himself that and he may not know what one is, within the political realm or definition. He's not a political person, and that I think is leading to many people having just a devil of a time translating the guy, analyzing the guy, predicting the guy, projecting the guy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Pensar, Gente, Guy

  Fuente: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Era algo fácil de gravar para un país joven. Y luego, gradualmente, pasamos a los impuestos sobre la propiedad, los impuestos sobre la fabricación, y el impuesto sobre la renta fue la respuesta a una demanda populista: Vamos a por los ricos. Entramos en la Primera Guerra Mundial, y subieron los tipos y empezaron a gravar a los ricos. Luego entramos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y fue entonces cuando gravaron a todo el mundo, porque simplemente necesitaban más ingresos.

  T.R. Reid

  Country, War, Guy

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Class, Way, Anger And Fear

  "America Without a Middle Class". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Quality, Reform, Benefits

  "My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.

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• I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.

  Kalan Sherrard

  New York, Believe, Artist

  "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.

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• The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals.

  Saul Alinsky

  Past, People, Labels

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• The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Past, Class, Age

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.62, Vintage

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• Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.

  Van Jones

  Together, Alliances, Littles

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Socialism, Century

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2011.

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• The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

  Rey Alberto II

  Forgotten, Reactions, Crisis

  "Belgium King Albert II Christmas Speech Sparks Controversy". www.bbc.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

  Brian Lamb

  Bigs, Knows, Ifs

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• There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest. A few months later came the expected military coup - a very vicious military junta took over, of which the United States was passively supportive. Not openly, of course, but Haitians started to flee from the terror and were sent back and on towards Guantanamo Bay. Of course, that is against International Law. But the United States pretended that they were "economic refugees."

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Law, President

  Fuente: thehumanist.com

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• From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

  William Blum

  Crush, Country, Fighting

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• I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not doing something that's safe and anodyne and trying to be populist and a national treasure, then you've got to assume that as many people hate what you do - and you - as like what you do and like you.

  Ricky Gervais

  Odio, Gente, Intentar

  "Cemetery Junction - Entrevista a Ricky Gervais y Stephen Merchant". Entrevista con Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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