David Mamet Quotes

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.

If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.

I have issues with liberals, which includes many gay people. I have found some liberal gays to be extremely intolerant of other points of view.

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.

I have not always held the position I do today on the life issue.

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state. A woman's right to choose is the law of the land, and I support that.

I am pro-life, but because life is complicated, that choice is between a woman and her idea of a higher power.

Americans are waking up to the tragedy of abortions.

I believe that abortion is the taking of human life.

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.

I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

I don't know about calling yourself a feminist. I also, for me, it's difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion in this context. And I'm neither anti-male or pro- abortion, so.

I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe over the years that a woman should be able to make this agonizing decision with her doctor and her family and her conscience, and that we should be very careful that we don't make that decision a crime except in the most extreme circumstances.

Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a good thing.

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

I notice that all of the people who support abortion are already born.

Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman's health or her life, and if it does, you can't support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.