Populist Quotes

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein

Political, Human, Desire

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia

Power, Freedom, Thought

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
Brian Eno

Good, Popular, Rarely

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.
Tim McGraw

True, Saying, Wrong

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
Dee Dee Myers

Power, Drunk, Him

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.
Jo Brand

Done, Far, Stuff

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

Change, Great, Political

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, Perfect, Play

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
Ed Gillespie

Republican, Party

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
Bill Keller

Nice, Media, Ring

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
Brian Cox

Working, Though, Community

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
Jim Hightower

Washington, Arkansas

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
Jose Manuel Barroso

Fear, Crisis, Feelings

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.
Brian Lamb

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
Preston Manning

Political, Personal, Canada

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Fear, Violence, Terrorism

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