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Quotes About Change

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.
~ Emilio Estevez
It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
~ Shirley MacLaine
I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.
~ George Clooney
I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.
~ George W. Bush
I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.
~ Thea Gilmore
Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
~ Helen Reddy
Politics is but a narrow field.
~ Henry David Thoreau
... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again
~ Herbert H. Lehman
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
~ Walter Isaacson
One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.
~ Tony Blair
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.
~ Ian Mcewan
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.
~ Indira Gandhi
If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
~ Jack Layton
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
~ J.B. Pritzker
I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.
~ Jerry Springer
I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
~ Jesse Helms
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
~ Johann Lamont
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
~ John Adams
Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.
~ John Kasich
No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind
~ Karl Marx
Consumers are what's going to change the world, not necessarily industries or governments,
~ Horace Luke