Nicole Avant Quotes

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

All politics is local.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

I didn't grow up in politics.

Politics is not a spectator sport. You can't just sit on the sidelines.

We want political power in our country for our philosophy of life. This means we've got to get involved more and more in politics.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

We need to get young people excited about politics, excited about government.

Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.

One of the more important things the Bernie Sanders campaign did is reach people who are political but not electorally political. They're political in either non-profits or community groups, but didn't see how important it was to get involved in electoral politics.

Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

I think it's lovely when people are more involved in local politics.

What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the voices of people outside this weirdo palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media thing might be really positive.