I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.
Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.
Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.
I was very political when JFK ran.
I'm a political conservative.
My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
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