MJ Hegar Quotes

I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.

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 am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

It’s very hard for any one person to embrace every single aspect of any one party.

To abolish all distinctions of party may not be practicable, perhaps not desirable, in a free government

If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.

I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

Once upon a time the Conservative party was a broad church which embraced a range of views.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

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'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

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.

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

I like and respect Elisabeth Hasselbeck so much. I'm from a political party that represents half the country.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.