Quotes About Politics

Growing up where I did, I came from a politically progressive family so I was aware of social issues, but it seemed like a very separate thing from film.

With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.

I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

Bernie Sanders is the only politician who, consistently for 50 years, has taken that social justice platform into politics.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

I will not allow the liberal left, social media, or fake news to define me and my family.

The day Trump got elected, I got off social media.

Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.

I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.

My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling and cursing politics and the state of the nation. I made an effort and I am trying to fulfill my social responsibility.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

The Democrats and Republicans need to come together. I've criticized Democrats for their unwillingness to address entitlement reform and Social Security and Medicare. Republicans, on the other hand, never saw a tax that they liked, even when it meant closing tax loopholes. They don't want to in any way support any revenue enhancements.

I don't care as much about politics as about social service.

Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.

I am friendly to all political parties. So, I am able to do my social work freely without any hassles.