Eastern europe Quote by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

— Garrison Keillor

My grandfather was an American Communist, and he married my grandmother, who was a Russian Communist. During the 1950s, the McCarthy era, my family…

— Bill Browder

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost…

— Alex Wagner

I really didn't come from a political family. I didn't come from, like, a political world. It wasn't tribal for me.

— Wes Moore

I come from a very active family politically, especially around union organizing.

— Simone Missick

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

— Bill Foster

I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.

— Ana Navarro

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than…

— Bram Fischer

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

— Billy Corgan