Stephen Pagliuca Quotes

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

I'm a loyal Democrat.

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.

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

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

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

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

As recently as 2014, I was a Paul Ryan supporter. I pounded signs and made phone calls on his behalf. I bought his book and gave it out to friends.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

I'm not a separatist, I'm friends with some people who voted for Trump, not many. Nobody has the nerve to tell me, but a few have.

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

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

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.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

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 love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.