Martin Sheen Quotes

When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

Music can't change the world.

Art is not meant to change the world.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

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.

Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

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.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

The frustration of Washington is you have to concentrate on just a few areas to really make a difference, and then so much of the power is at the top, at the committee chairman level.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.

The sheer scale at which one is able to create change as elected representatives is unmatched.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

What did you do to change the world today?

Good or bad, political choices have an impact on the way country’s behave.

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

It is easy to scoff at the prestigious commissions that constantly sprout in Washington as empty exercises in buck passing—until you take stock of all they have accomplished.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

The world which we now live in must be transformed, yet there is a dearth of ideas about how it is to be done.

Most Hoosiers underestimate their ability to effect change.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.