Populist Quotes - Page 2

• Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

  David Rockefeller

  Ignorance, Past, Ignorant

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

  Lidija Dimkovska

  Hate, Humanity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Country, Cutting, Reality

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• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  J. G. Ballard

  Order, Optimism, Political

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests. I remember I was really quite sad from Election Night last year until Jan. 20. And then I remember waking up Jan. 21 and seeing these amazing Women's Marches across America, and I thought to myself, That's the country that I know. And that's a larger populist movement that I'm seeing than Donald Trump's relatively small populist movement. And that gave me a lot of hope and energy, and from that day forward, I've taken a view that we'll flip the House next year.

  Ted Lieu

  Country, Taken, Night

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  Eyvind Kang

  Song, Creativity, Sacrifice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements because in the end I don't think they really do provide answers. They ride the anger. But they don't really have the answers. Or whether this is an experiment we're just going to have to go through first.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Movement, Answers

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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• There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

  Adam McKay

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I just think that the skepticism about truth has almost completely flipped - from being something associated with generally left-leaning progressives to being something which is a tool of right-wing populists and demagogues. I think a lot of those people writing books ten years ago would now think those books are no longer needed, they've kind of been vindicated.

  Julian Baggini

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Lessons, Voters

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Conservative, Republican

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in Europe. The alt-right believes in racially separate nation-states.

  Chip Berlet

  Believe, Very Popular, Nationalism

  Source: www.salon.com

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• But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Party, Ignorance, Wings

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Fun, Elitist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Oswald Mosley`s movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary system of government in Britain with a government that was based on business interests, that was based on the idea that business interests were the real interests of that country and business interests.
  and reorganizing the government to serve business interests, that would be a way to get stuff done faster and more efficiently.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Real, Ideas

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• Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Party, Holocaust

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• I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wonder, joy, surprise. And what becomes really interesting is when innovative or challenging or smart people take it and use the easy runway that the form allows to take people to another planet, or another place. Or subvert it in some way.

  George C. Wolfe

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

  Jeffrey Archer

  Should, Mayors, Vulgar

  "Jeffrey Archer" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 1999.

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• I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the song is no longer mine anyway. I like to process the dispossession that happens when you play something live. I don't have a clue as to how these songs are going to plan out, whether they're going to be on a record. I don't know yet.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Believe, Play

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Earthquakes, Cities, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Dirty, Europe, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Mistake, Tasks, Made

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum could quickly put a stop to such crass rabble-rousing, as it should soon become clear that the UK was better off inside the EU - economically, socially and in foreign policy terms.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Opportunity, Europe, Missing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, appears to imagine an alliance between Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage. Call it the populist international, a fraternal association of the nationalist right, binding people who want borders, across borders.

  Anne Applebaum

  White, People, House

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

  David Brooks

  Believe, Thinking, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

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