Frances O'Grady Quotes

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.

I'll tell you where I stand on the issues, and then I'll let the pundits decide how to label me.

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

The appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all [political] parties.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat.

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.

Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.

We have a really rich and diverse heritage in my family - but I sometimes felt it was a bit of a chain round my neck in the Labour party if truth be told.

On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.

Listen, everybody thinks I'm a Republican, but I'm not a Republican.

One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.'

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

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

I think Donald Trump has a significant number of issues where he is not a Republican.