Political Involvement Quotes

Be not surprised that I am turned politician. The whole town is immersed in politics.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

How hurtful to religion and the state is the concession to ministers of religion of any power of issuing decrees or transacting the business of government.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

I joined the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) in the early '80s. I'd be in it still but it was wound up at the end of the nineties.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

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.

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

I never considered politics as an option, not ever.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

Don’t fear this campaign, my fellow Republicans, join it.

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

I feel very uncomfortable supporting a political candidate from afar.

If somebody asks me where I stand, I tell them. And that's not a way to get elected, generally. Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States. What I'd like to do is to be able to influence the dialogue. I'm a citizen

The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.

What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

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