Quotes About Engagement

The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

I'd been politically active ever since my parents wheeled me in a stroller in a 'ban the bomb' march in Boston in 1963.

I'm not that politically educated.

I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.

My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent.

We have quite a few political songs: 'Channel Z,' let's 'Keep This Party Going' on. Our lyrics aren't too hit-you-over-the-head, but they have political undertones. We're active politically.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

I'm not a politician or political animal.

I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.

I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

I'm an entertainer, not a politician.