Brad Paisley Quotes

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

Not everybody who supports Donald Trump, not everyone who supports Hilary Clinton, are exactly the kind of people that you want as supporters.

For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

He loved politicians—even Republicans