Quotes About Perspective

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

I'm not a Democrat.

I used to vote Democrat.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

Everybody in the military is a Democrat. They just don't know it.

Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, facts matter.

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

The Democratic Party needs to stop telling black Americans how to think.

Not all Democrats are the same.

I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.

I understand demographics.

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

Those who deny their own feelings tend to deny other people's.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

In the media, they're always talking about money. I'm not denying that it plays a role, but everything has to be in its right place.

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.

I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.