Charles Barkley Quotes

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

It's really hard to be a black Republican. I see what they go through. It's a good little trick the entire mainstream media has pulled by describing Republicans as "Racist! Racist! Racist!" and then turning around and laughing at us for not having more blacks in our party.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

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

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

Republicans tend to be grumpy old men.

I happen to be unique. I'm a Republican that represents an urban area.

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

I am not a Republican apologist.

There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.

When you're rich, you want a Republican in office.

Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.

America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

We have a lot of people who are Republicans, a lot of people who are Democrats, and it's not just because of business reasons.

I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?

I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.

How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand - conservatism brand, Republican brand - has been summarily destroyed over the years.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.