The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Only Americans can hurt America.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.