Political Attitudes 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.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

Polls are like perfume—very nice to smell; dangerous to drink.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

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

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

I have never found a Federalist over the age of 30 who has ever changed his mind about politics.

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

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

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

I don’t have an ideology.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

In general, the attitude towards Nazi Germany was not that hostile, especially if you look at the U.S. State Department reports. In 1937 the State Department was describing Adolf Hitler as a "moderate" who was holding off the forces of the right and the left.

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

I didn't know a liberal from a conservative. I had a clean slate.

Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.

The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Younger people obviously are more likely to openly express their political affiliations in terms of gear.

A good deal of our politics is psychological.

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