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Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues. -- Birch Bayh
A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so. -- Steven Weber
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins. -- Yann Martel
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies. -- Kenny Marchant
They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party. -- Nancy Pelosi
I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy. -- Janeane Garofalo
Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong? -- Seymour Hersh
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. -- Timothy Noah
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies. -- Jonah Goldberg
The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work. -- Stephanie Coontz
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist. -- Rudy Giuliani
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, -- John F. Kerry
The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise. -- Chuck Schumer
I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. -- Brian Lamb
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them. -- George W. Bush
Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. -- Jane Jacobs
Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues. -- Chris Bell
At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view. -- Robert Dallek
We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. -- Harry Reid
I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever -- Elizabeth Warren
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism. -- Camille Paglia
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless. -- Russell Kirk
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts. -- James Burnham
A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all-reactionary, all-backward, 'there-is-no-global-warming' rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled. -- Frank Schaeffer
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics. -- Ed Koch
But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it. -- Peter Ferrara
Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will be able to ensure that no group of ideologues and no private sector institution can coopt our rights, take us into senseless wars and steal the nation from its people. -- Harry Belafonte
I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. -- John Avlon
Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks. -- John Cusack
One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them. -- Josh Marshall
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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate. -- Charles Schumer

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