Barbra Streisand Quotes

He loved politicians—even Republicans

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

I can't go out with a Republican.

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

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.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

Conservatives are not our enemies. They are our neighbors.

There was the slow discovery for me in the early '80s that Republicans are people too... That Republicans are perfectly reasonable people... and that Republicans can be right about something.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

When people don't like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.

But I'm proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.