Populist Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

  Robert McCrum

  Communication, Mean, Microsoft

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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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• 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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• I think Donald Trump is a pragmatic sort of populist and who tell people anything in any moment that he wants them to hear, if he thinks that it`s going to be to his advantage, that everything is going to reset in the general election, assuming that he is the nominee, and I think it will be interesting to watch how many people feel betrayed or conned with the game he played with the Republican Party at this point.

  Ben Domenech

  Party, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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