What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

I don’t think we need more gun control laws.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

In oratory the will must predominate.