Personal Politics Quotes

I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class and race and healthcare and education and housing and racism impact everyday lives. For example, my mother wouldn't let me go to my homecoming dance because the yacht club where they were having the dance threw a fundraiser for David Duke, an ex-Klan member, when he was running for governor of Louisiana. So I grew up seeing how personal politics could be.

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

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

The Party has nothing to do with politics in our country any more. It’s the individual.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.

There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.