Populist Quotes - Page 3

• You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.

  Van Jones

  White, House, World

  Source: pen.org

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• Never underestimate a populist. We have come to a moment where language is very important. Saying the media is the number one enemy of society is a way to create confusion and set people against each other. It's like a virus. Democracy dies and is born every day. If you don't take an active role in what is going on, somebody can easily steal it from you.

  Edgar Ramirez

  Confusion, People, Enemy

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• Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Messages, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

  Martin Schulz

  Issues, People, Trying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Believe, And Love, West

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• This isn't Republican versus Democrat. This is not right versus left right now. This is not conservative versus populist. This is globalist, America-is-not-first establishment versus those of us who believe America is first. This is an establishment/anti-establishment fight that's going on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Fighting, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, Wings, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

  Mara Liasson

  Government, Outsiders, Conservative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Wings, Rising

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.

  Irvine Welsh

  Sorry, Media, Cheerleader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Party, Political Opinions

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

  Akbar Ganji

  Differences, People, Fool

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.

  Nicholas Bloom

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

  David Brooks

  Elements, Movement, Warning

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The New York Times had a headline on its website - Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn't sound very populist to me. Today's commerce secretary, the names being talked about for treasury secretary, I think there will be populist talk but maybe no populist action.

  E. J. Dionne

  New York, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Populists love rich people. They just hate professionals.

  David Brooks

  Hate, People, Rich

  "Week In Politics: Trump Makes First Cabinet Appointments". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 25, 2016.

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• The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy.

  Nicholas Bloom

  Stars, Party, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Republicans advising candidates to "grab onto the best elements of [his] anti-Washington populist agenda," but warning that Trump is a "misguided missile," "subject to farcical fits" and candidates should avoid getting drawn into "every Trump dust-up," but should quickly condemn some of his comments, including "wacky things about women."

  Dalia Mogahed

  Dust, Agendas, Elements

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Issues, Class

  "Celebrity Candidate Casting Call" by Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2006.

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• I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

  Shepard Fairey

  Artist, Graffiti, Streets

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• Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most voters’ minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks.

  Ramesh Ponnuru

  Mind, Answers, Libertarian

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• Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.

  Mark Levin

  Reality, Government, Class

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Inspiring, Party, Leader

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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

  Rob Sheffield

  Heart, Play, Common Sense

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