Quotes About Citizenship

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

Country comes before politics.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Local politics matters a lot.

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

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.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.