Political Activist Quotes

One reason George Soros has been able to be so active in the political arena is that he has received a considerable amount of our tax dollars to fund his activities.

Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

Mohammed Ali. He's much more than a boxer. He's also a passionate idealist who fought for his people. I respect him - and, of course, he was very handsome in his younger days.

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

[Characterizing William Jennings Bryan:] ... a tinpot Pope in the Coca-Cola belt.

Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a champion of civil rights. Had I not seen the play, I might not have known who Robeson was. I was certainly never taught about him in school.

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

Do not underestimate Jeremy Corbyn.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

I really like and admire Michael Moore.