Lauren Graham Quotes

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

My parents are Republicans, and I'm not.

I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.

I don't support Trump. We'll put that right out there.

I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

If somebody did a new show that, within a family, had conflicting political views, that would be great.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

I don't agree with Trump on everything.

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

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

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

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

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

He loved politicians—even Republicans

My father's politics did not influence mine. In fact, we disagreed on a fair amount of stuff.

I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them.

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

Paul Ryan has been part of the Never-Trump group.