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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

Populism is dangerous.

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

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

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

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

Even some of my Republican friends say I have a populist, progressive streak. I am not a doctrinaire, anti-government person.

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

I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.