Quotes About Engagement

I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix.

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

Oh my God, don't ever start a political party. It's exhausting.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

I am committed to growing participation in the political process and doing it the right way.

I figured if you live in a country long enough, you want to be a part of the political process, and you sort of owe it to your hosts. They've accepted you. Why wouldn't you accept them?

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you're expanding who is included in the political process, you won't connect the two.

I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.

We are not politically naive.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.