Helen Fisher Quotes

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the biology that hasn't been discovered yet. It's just another way of stating that we're biological organisms determined by the physical laws of the universe.

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

Liberals are constantly wrong. In fact, that's how you rise to the top in liberalism, by being wrong. If you are wrong, and if you are consistently wrong, it's even better. You're really one of them if you're really wrong all the time. Look at Jimmy Carter.

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

I am of the school that believes, for the most part, that gays are born and not made. That is, I believe - and there appears to be significant scientific evidence to back me up - that there is a genetic predisposition to be gay.

Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn. He still hasn't rejoined the party; it's not left wing enough for him.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.

We are not humans because we've invented a different type of brain cell, a different type of brain chemical. We are the same basic building blocks as even a fruit fly.

Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

I don't believe in populism.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.