Italo Calvino Quotes

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically have no belief in politics. But it's more of an attitude and a discipline in the way you approach life, I think, than it is just what lever you pull in a voting booth.

My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It's trying not to be - politics is not everything. There's life other than politics. Politics intrudes.

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

I keep my distance from politics. Lots of money has been offered to me for campaigning over the years, and I have always refused. I used to be very politically aware and very opinionated, but I don't want to involve myself.

I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

For politicians neither love nor hate.

I try to stay out of politics.

The possibility that I will ever be drawn into political activity is so remote as to be negligible.

I don't want to be close to politics.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections. "Are you abandoning [Donald] Trump?" No, no, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just explaining. I should have told you. I get emails constantly from people asking me when am I going to Trump Tower. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.