Kevin Rudd Quotes

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

I have spent my life fighting for the underrepresented and I am working tirelessly to be New Mexico's champion in Congress.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

I am such a political person.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

It's so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren't able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won't.

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

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

I haven't been very active in politics.

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.