Political Duality Quotes

The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.

I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.

Some people like to campaign like a conservative and legislate like a progressive.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

The office of the President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Wisconsin is a very liberal state and a very conservative state. We're the home of the progressive movement. We're the home of the Republican Party.

CDU head Angela Merkel has tried for years to serve two sides: the conservative side by holding up her CDU party membership. But then at the same time she acts as though she were also a Social Democrat. I don't have this hydra-headed nature. In the end, people will vote for the Social Democratic original.

… a hermaphrodite government, half military, half republican, representing the alligators and the frogs of Louisiana

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.