Georges Clemenceau Quotes

One of the wiser clichés of the 20th century stated that if you aren’t a Communist before you are 21, there is something wrong with your heart. If you remain one after you are 21, there is something wrong with your head.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

I have never found a Federalist over the age of 30 who has ever changed his mind about politics.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed.

One of the hard things coming from an immigrant family - or any family that doesn't believe in the arts - is that you have to disappoint your parents. That's hard for people to do if you're a good kid.

I have stuck my neck out to stand with a party whose ideologies are closest to mine.

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

I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.

I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'

Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

There's a communist living in the White House!

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.