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  • I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it. -- Peter Gould
  • I don't care what right-wing white people are thinking. -- Bill Cosby
  • A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot. -- Milos Zeman
  • Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. -- Gloria Steinem
  • I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue. -- Bobby Seale
  • I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. -- Pat Robertson
  • I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization. -- Peter Jennings
  • The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. -- Moby
  • The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do. -- Howard Dean
  • I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing. -- Vince Cable
  • All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. -- Rick Perlstein
  • Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • 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
  • I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
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  • I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. -- John le Carre
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. -- Bono
  • It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing - fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews. -- Dennis Prager
  • It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. -- Graham Joyce
  • But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause. -- Al Franken
  • When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. -- Jimmy Reid
  • 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
  • For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally. -- Juan Williams
  • Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. -- Adam McKay
  • 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
  • Most right-wing person I know! -- Howard Bloom
  • Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing. -- Woody Guthrie
  • My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism. -- William J. Clinton
  • Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. -- David Brock
  • I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. -- David Brock
  • The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • The right-wing just loves making a big entrance. -- Steven Weber
  • No, I do not identify with the right wing. -- Tom Metzger
  • I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy. -- Janeane Garofalo
  • The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves. -- Bernie Sanders
  • I've been having problems with the right wing lately. -- John F. Kerry
  • Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. -- Rick Perlstein
  • I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals. -- Alastair Reynolds
  • I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years. -- William Safire
  • We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. -- Kathy Acker
  • There's a right-wing shift in Israeli society, very hard right shift. -- Vijay Prashad
  • Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years -- Dennis Prager
  • I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird. -- Pat Paulsen
  • You can be sure that I won't experiment with right-wing terms. -- Martin Schulz
  • Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. -- Kathy Acker
  • That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. -- Kathy Acker
  • I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation. -- Lech Walesa
  • Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists, -- Sally Kohn
  • If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate. -- Arlen Specter
  • Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite -- Iain Banks
  • What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press. -- Stephen Colbert
  • Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. -- Barbara Amiel
  • Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that. -- Ann Richards
  • The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions. -- Steven Weber
  • The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. -- Al Sharpton
  • We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress. -- Barbra Streisand
  • Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did. -- Hugh Hefner
  • At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party. -- Jonathan Chait
  • These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. -- Jane Russell
  • For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that. -- Nigel Short
  • I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda. -- Charles Schumer
  • The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk -- Dennis Prager
  • I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. -- William Hague
  • The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help. -- Larry Flynt
  • Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. -- Samuel West
  • There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing. -- Barney Frank
  • Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. -- Marc Maron
  • I'm not left-wing, or right-wing. With only one wing I couldn't fly, and I just couldn't have that. -- Dennis Sharp
  • I think 'The West Wing' hit at a moment in time that was just right for that show. -- Thomas Schlamme
  • Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. -- John Darnielle
  • In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. -- Luke Ford
  • I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias. -- Tony Benn
  • Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. -- Kevin Rudd
  • In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds. -- Tom Metzger
  • I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics. -- Armistead Maupin
  • Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive. -- Steven Weber
  • In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel. -- Chris Carmack
  • In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor. -- Etgar Keret
  • Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. -- Michael Moore
  • 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
  • Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. -- Pat Paulsen
  • I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math. -- Randy Weber
  • I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.' -- Phil Robertson
  • ...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative." -- Irving Kristol
  • 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
  • The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. -- Christopher Lasch
  • I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America. -- Howard Dean
  • 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
  • I do think there are very few extreme right-wing gay Republicans. Although it depends how you define "extreme right-wing." They're making a political calculation. -- Kirby Dick
  • The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America. -- Russ Feingold
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president? -- Cindy Sheehan
  • Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment. -- Julie Klausner
  • We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything. -- Jacques Delors
  • I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs. -- Bernie Sanders
  • I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right. -- Kevin Hart
  • The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. -- Christopher Lasch
  • I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach. -- Denise Mina
  • Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama. -- Mimi Kennedy
  • It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it. -- Marcia Angell
  • The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
  • Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine. -- Paul Krugman
  • Anybody who thinks there`s not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg. -- Richard Belzer
  • The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. -- Michael Moore
  • Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial. -- Adam McKay
  • 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
  • I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left. -- Juan Williams
  • The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 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
  • The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals. -- Frank Zappa
  • There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots. -- David Remnick
  • While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable. -- Bernie Sanders
  • The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is. -- Howard Dean
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