Jo Brand Quotes

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

I know Eric Schmidt, and he has different political views from mine. But I think he's a terrific guy.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

I don't have to agree with everything a candidate does to support him.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

Tolerance is as necessary in politics as it is in religion.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.