Quotes About Engagement

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

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.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

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.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.