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• In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

  Luke Ford

  Wings, Unemployment, Faults

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• There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"

  Dan Savage

  Religious, Mistake, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• We are all "conservatives" in some sense, because we want to "conserve" some things while changing others. We are all "liberals" because we all want to be "free" in some respects. We are all "progressives" because we want to progress towards something: the question is, towards what? So instead of asking someone, are you conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, why don't I ask what you want to conserve, and what to change, and why? Then we might finally have an intelligent debate about politics.

  Stratford Caldecott

  Intelligent, Wings, Progress

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• People have not made the connection that the more of us there are, the more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere. The Chinese have. They, unlike us, have a population policy. The right wingers just don't understand that the country they're in is probably the most overpopulated in the world, the one doing most of the destruction, and the one with horrendously bad leadership.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, People, Atmosphere

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Conservative values aren't really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is: It's an evolving, ever-changing organization, and it has not always been this radical, right-wing arm of the Republican Party, and that the history of the NRA is in fact really interesting.

  Abigail Disney

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Hands, Wings

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 27, 2011

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• Most right-wing person I know!

  Howard Bloom

  Wings, Persons, Knows

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• Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Lying, Wings

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• The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, War, Winning

  "United Against the War on Women" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.salon.com

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• In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted to raise tuition and cut social protections. These demonstrations are continuing in a variety of countries throughout the globe and embrace an investment in a new understanding of the commons as a shared space of knowledge, debate, exchange and participation.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Cutting, Police Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

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• Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

  Erica Jong

  Law, Wings, Abortion

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• If I was a supervillain, I'd create this universal, cosmic rule where every time an old, shitty, right-wing white man says something unsavory about a young woman, he would just get the clap immediately.

  Jack Antonoff

  Men, White Man, Wings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Hate, Teaching, School

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

  Louis C. K.

  Christian, Hate, Simple

  "Louis C.K. Reflects On 'Louie,' Loss, Love And Life". "Fresh Air", kcur.org. December 13, 2011.

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• The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

  Al Franken

  Team, Years, Wings

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

  Al Franken

  Lying, Media, Wings

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• I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

  Al Franken

  Wall, Mean, Thinking

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• When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Media, Wings, Trying

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• I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Wings, Enemy, Ideologues

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• I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

  John Lydon

  Wings, Wife, Doe

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• This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

  Michael Moore

  Successful, Wings, Unions

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• Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Wings, Two

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.50, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Wings, Facts, Inspired

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