Kinky Friedman Quotes

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Good ends can rarely be attained in politics without passion.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Those who are outraged will vote.

If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Sometime between elections we should concentrate on doing something.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.

My first passion is politics.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.

My district doesn't come to vote to the polls against something because they fear something. They will come to the polls to vote for something because they are inspired by something.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.