Katie Pavlich Quotes

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

My father was not a political animal.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.