Quotes About Involvement

Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Any time you can completely immerse yourself in something it's fun.

It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans.

I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.

political disengagement no longer an option for any serious person.

Cuando la gente de trabajo se abstiene y deja la política a los políticos el país se va al diablo.

How much sense would it make, after all, for someone involved with a kidnapping to draw attention to himself by claiming to be a witness and telling an elaborate lie?

The Americans landed in Vietnam, were killed in Vietnam, and others have continued to come here without having good reasons.

She had joined the Viet Cong herself four years earlier, its Young Pioneer Organization.

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.