Quotes About Community

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people in a genuine way.

You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people.

You don't need to wear a politician's garb to serve public.

As a mother, I want the very best for my children. As a politician, I want what is best for all children.

I'm not a politician. My conscience has brought me before you. Give me a chance to serve you.

I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

All politics is local.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

Politics is not about money.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it's more about dividing people, not bringing them together.