Political Conviction Quotes

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

In politics its almost as big a sin to change your mind as it is to be wrong.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

I have been a Democrat all my life and accustomed to the rule of the majority. If a majority of this crowd want me to stop speaking, I will stop. If the majority want me to continue, I will speak on regardless of you and your company.

The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

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

I am a Conservative: I'm never going to be anything else.

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.

What provides me with the strength and conviction to walk proudly among protesters so angry about the policies I endorse is the support I absorb when I am in my own constituency. Whenever I am at home, I am met with smiling faces, and words of thanks, even hugs.

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.

We knew how cruel we were being … but we had to get our political message across.

I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.

My political opponents can have their pound of flesh … but they will not eat into my beliefs

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.

No Federalist over the age of 30 has ever changed his mind on anything

My wife, she was an early-adopter to Trump and a supporter of Trump - earlier than me, by far.

The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.

I am a Democrat still—very still.