Right Wing Quotes

• Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Fall, Wings, Shoulders

  54 Copy quote

• The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

  Dennis Prager

  Wings, People, Taxes

  5 Copy quote

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  Harry Browne

  Children, Fighting, Government

  66 Copy quote

• If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Wings, Two

  5 Copy quote

• One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Believe, Wings, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.

  Peter McWilliams

  Christian, Religious, Freedom

  5 Copy quote

• I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

  Richard Trumka

  Believe, Wings, Political

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.

  Jill Stein

  Wings, Agendas, Addresses

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Ignorance, Wings

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

  Al Franken

  Country, Children, Mean

  "Al Franken Flashback: Controversial Heeb Magazine Interview". Interview with Heather Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wings, Trying, United States

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

  Mario Cantone

  Religious, Gay, Years

  "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

  Tom Metzger

  Fighting, Europe, Wings

  9 Copy quote

• I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Redneck, Wings, Long

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

  John Darnielle

  Past, Years, Wings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real threat.

  Amy Goodman

  Hate, Real, Home

  FaceBook post by Amy Goodman from Apr 17, 2014

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they reach a huge audience. And they're very uniform. So right wing, I don't think you can even find an analog in your, but they reach a mass audience, and their view is that the corporations are liberal. Their appeal to the population is, "the country is run by liberals, they own the corporations, they run the government, they own the media, and they don't care about us ordinary people."

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Country, Thinking

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those spaces that enable an experience of the common good are now the object of disdain by right-wing and liberal politicians, anti-public intellectuals and an army of media pundits.

  Henry Giroux

  Army, Media, Wings

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

  6 Copy quote

• If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

  Arlen Specter

  Wings, People, Enough

  "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, Littles, Privilege

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Wings, People, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.

  Keith Ellison

  Hate, Wings, Hysteria

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

  John Wayne

  Jesus, Wings, Views

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.16, Taylor Trade Publications

  147 Copy quote

  Show source

• In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

  John Lennon

  Class, Wings, Two

  "Playboy" Interview with David Sheff, September 1980.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source