I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.
I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.