Quotes About Affiliation

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

It was, of course, a sign of things to come, a larger, darker reality in which partisan affiliation and political expedience would threaten to blot out everything—your previous positions; your stated principles; even what your own senses, your eyes and ears, told you to be true.

a sign of things to come, a larger, darker reality in which partisan affiliation and political expedience would threaten to blot out everything—your previous positions; your stated principles; even what your own senses, your eyes and ears, told you to be true.

A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

I do not represent the Republican Party.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

You know me: I've been a lifelong Republican.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

I am never going to be manager of Barcelona or Arsenal because I am so identified with Tottenham and Espanyol.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I identify, I guess, as a conservative Catholic.

I am a South Tyrolean. I identify with this land.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

I don't necessarily support Romney, I don't consider myself a Republican. I'm pretty much an independent.