Steve Earle Quotes

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

I think politics are a personal thing, and everybody has a right to their own opinion.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

The Democratic Party has been my party over 50 years, where I waged my battle to change America and change the world from its progressive wing.

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?

Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.

And, when it comes to politics, it can be awfully difficult to put your desires aside and to acknowledge that the world is a much messier place, where open-minded people might be conservative and liberals may well be conscientious.

I'm not political and I don't judge.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.