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The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion. — Bruce Braley

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. — Brian Eno

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class. — Bruce Braley

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be? — Jeffrey Archer

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. — Bill Keller

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. — Elizabeth Warren

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art. — Helen Mirren

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that. — Joss Whedon

Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism. — Ron Chernow

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not. — Brian Lamb

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. — Preston Manning

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land. — Gore Vidal

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party. — Ed Gillespie

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments. — King Albert II

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity. — Fred Tomaselli

there are kings and there are kingmakers. Regardless of what populist history might argue, you rarely have one without the other. — Matthew FitzSimmons

Principled antipluralism and the commitment to "direct representation" explain another feature of populist politics — Jan-Werner Muller

There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist. — Stephen Malkmus

If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties. — Jose Manuel Barroso

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people. — Narendra Modi

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist. — Brian Cox

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy. — Glenn Greenwald

The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy. — Simon Kuper

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist. — Shepard Fairey

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten. — King Albert II

The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party. — Mara Liasson

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington. — Jim Hightower

The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate. — Mara Liasson

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist. — Adam McKay

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad. — P. J. O'Rourke

Rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it. — Lester Bangs

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly. — Jo Brand

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare. — Tina Brown