Joy Reid Quotes

The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions that reveal themselves in our voting.

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

In most countries, class, education, religion, and regions are better predictors of voting behavior than sex.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those watching the same film in suburban areas.

The struggle, begun this morning upon the hustings of your old town, is not a struggle between two men—it is a struggle between two countries. On the one side, the side of the Whig candidate, hangs the red banner beneath which your senate has been sacked, your commerce has been wrecked, your nobility has been dishonored, your peasants have been starved. On the other side … floats the green flag beneath which your senate sat, your commerce thrived, your nobility honored, your peasants prospered.

Nearly from the founding we have had a democracy organized by two parties with wide wingspans, It’s often confusing to people why folks of different ideologies, different economic classes, racial and ethnic communities join under a particular political party.

The political tendencies of the various social classes are based on a correct practical instinct.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic

Inequality is now determined more about where you live than the class you belong to.

While we recognize … the class origins of political parties we do not reduce every difference between parties to a class difference.

One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.

During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.

I do not use words like 'liberal' or 'conservative.' You can ask me a question, and I will give you an answer. Those are words rich people on television use to divide and conquer.

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.

I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.

I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.