James Cleverly Quotes

It was weird that I was a young person who was Republican. And I wanted to get at the heart of why it was that so many people of my generation thought that being Republican just wasn't for them. They thought that conservative ideas just weren't for them.

There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

The differences between Rand Paul and millennials are vast - not just on economics, but on social issues that matter to young people, too.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Let's think about where things stood in December 2015. By that time, Republicans had already had such epic and long-standing struggles with young people that I'd written a whole book about it. Additionally, Republicans had already had a bruising start to their primary season.

In the United States, it is unmistakable that young people have broken away from the political right and have gravitated to more leftist-populist figures like Bernie Sanders.

For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you get on well with leftists at a party, they will blithely assume that you share the same views on the invasion of Iraq, even if all you've talked about is the canapes.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

My mom and dad are Republicans. At least two of my brothers are.

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman - or boogeywoman, as it were. She's a frequent target of Republican ire for being too far to the left - and she's also a target among progressives for not being far left enough.

My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.

I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.

I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.

I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.

Young people in Brazil for a long time have been an easy prey for the Left, from communists in Brazil. Social media liberated them from that.

We've got to think long-term too because I don't think Trump speaks to a lot of young people.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

Everybody in the military is a Democrat. They just don't know it.