Political Socialization Quotes

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that utopian dreams are dangerous.

I certainly did not know what the word 'socialism' meant growing up, because I was brought up in a very nonpolitical family. My brother was somewhat active, but my parents were not.

If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life, whose creed is not in absolute inheritance from his fathers, learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both. It is not everyone whose ductile mind takes him through this training, and a goodly number of up-growing men of not the worst promise for the future have to step aside.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.

My parents were both Democrats and I grew up as a Democrat. Basically I was told that the Democrats were the party that cared about people. I liked people and I cared about them, so I was a Democrat.

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.

Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

I didn't realize until high school that the man wearing a cowboy hat on the poster in our garage was actually Ronald Reagan, so my parents just - it was how we were, I grew up on five acres of land in Flagstaff, Arizona and we really just lived a conservative lifestyle.

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

The only newspaper in our house when I was growing up was the Daily Mail, and we would never have dreamt of discussing politics around the dinner table. So my involvement in politics came about through activism.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.