Chetan Bhagat Quotes

Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.

Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.

Political parties are no longer ideological. They are social markers and cultural identifies for people who want to see where they belong.

I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color.

I have gay friends who are more conservative than most of my conservative friends.

If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for a Democrat.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Ninety-eight percent of blacks voted for President Obama. That means these people are tied to that political party in a way that's different from other groups of people. Certain rappers always want to represent the Democratic side because they know that's safe and that's what represents their community. I tend to just do what I feel is right by all people.

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.

No-one ever votes Tory, do they?

I would not vote for the Democratic candidate. I could not vote for Donald Trump. I would therefore have to write in someone. I could get behind any other Republican candidate, any of them.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

I'm sorry, dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

I don't think clients you represented as an associate are relevant ... I think how you vote is relevant.

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.