Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.

Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.

It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips.

For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you get on well with leftists at a party, they will blithely assume that you share the same views on the invasion of Iraq, even if all you've talked about is the canapes.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.

You know, because of my military background, I talk to voters who for the first two minutes think I'm a Republican.

Listen, everybody thinks I'm a Republican, but I'm not a Republican.

I was brought up a working-class Tory. I believe, to be a true socialist, you have to be a capitalist first. In my heart, I'm a socialist; in my mind, I'm a capitalist.

We are not communists.

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

My wife, she was an early-adopter to Trump and a supporter of Trump - earlier than me, by far.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.

My political stand is beyond my family.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.