Julia Child Quotes

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.

As far as being a Republican is concerned, I come from a place, New York City, which is virtually, I mean, it is almost exclusively Democrat. And I have really started to see some of the negatives - as an example, and I have a lot of liking for this man, but the last number of months of his brother's administration were a catastrophe. And unfortunately, those few months gave us President Obama. And you can't be happy about that.

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.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a 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.

I used to vote Democrat.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I grew up poor.

I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.