Devendra Banhart Quotes

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

The left has lost the common touch.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.

Wisconsin is a very liberal state and a very conservative state. We're the home of the progressive movement. We're the home of the Republican Party.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.

I think the Republican Party has moved substantially to the right, particularly on social issues... And the Democratic Party has moved to the left over the past decades. So we've got a lot more room in the middle.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

I grew up in a small town in the Mojave Desert where conservative Republicans were as common as cacti. Inexplicably, I grew up liberal and a feminist.

I don't think Republicans are evil. I think they mostly have a different philosophy of government than I do.

The media doesn't understand conservatives at all.

I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

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

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.

I've never been a fan of party politics.

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

I think 'The East' is political.

The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.

I don't believe all Republicans are bad.