Political Views Quotes

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.

In the United States, higher self-reported mental health is strongly correlated with holding conservative political views. Although I’ve seen it written about elsewhere, I was honestly surprised by how strong the relationship is. Among voters who report poor mental health, liberals outnumber conservatives 45 percent to 19 percent. Among those who report excellent mental health, conservatives outnumber liberals 51-20.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

In face of political differences, contradictions and struggle, the Church preaches peace and co-operation among people holding various political views

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs", surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous -- and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations -- have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity. Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their political views and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable.