“People are starting to get tired of paying experts to tell them what they already know.”— Roseanne Barr
“The real dividing line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives... it is between the elites and the grassroots.”— Gary Bauer
“During this period of economic crisis and great uncertainty for many households, the populist message is gaining ground. It points to others as the source of all problems and proposes simplistic solutions. This way of thinking is a real threat to our democratic society.”— Albert II of Belgium
“There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be the man in the street.”— Joseph Goebbels
“The real issue is not whether you're a Democrat or a Republican. The real issue is whether you're a part of the establishment or not.”— Artur Davis
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”— William Jennings Bryan
“Populism is not a style. It's a political strategy based on the identification and mobilization of a single 'people' against both external and internal enemies.”— Timothy Garton Ash
“What elites call populism is the cry of the people for a voice in their own destiny.”— Christopher Lasch
“To be a Jacksonian is to believe that the government should do everything in its power to promote the well-being—political, moral, economic—of the folk community.”— Walter Russell Mead
“They call me 'Silver Dick.' Well, if I am for silver, it is because I believe it is the money of the common people.”— Richard Parks Bland