Kristin Gore Quotes

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Too many people in this town think about politics when they make every decision.

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.

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.

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.

I'm not into sports, and politics is kind of my sport. I love talking about it and debating it and getting into it. I also think people on both sides of the aisle have real exaggerated, incorrect views of the other side, and that is fascinating to me.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash.

I want to make sure that people understand that we know the difference between President Trump and the good-hearted people and the good-natured people of the United States. We know they're not one and the same.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

Ever since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, I've been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don't see the world, or humanity, as I do.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they've woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

I've never been a fan of party politics.