Nancy Gibbs Quotes

The reason Jeb Bush is not doing well is because of his name. He is part of a long establishment Republican family, and this is not going well with the Republican Party.

My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.

My father [Pandit Nehru] was a statesman. I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.

It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.

The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

Politics is an impressionistic art form.

George W. Bush is conservative but he is not a conservative.

Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities.

There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

I've always been a Democrat; it runs in my family.