Dmitry Medvedev Quotes

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But my group is liberal. Not only that, they say, 'If you're not liberal and not a Democrat, you're not black. If you're conservative, you're a sellout.' Here, then, I'm living with that kind of a pressure against my individuality.

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades.

When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.