Quotes About Engagement

As a politician, I engage with all kinds of opinions irrespective of whether they are in the media or not.

I guess I am a more, I don't know, consumer-facing politician.

I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

I don't have business with any politicians.

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club.

A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Everything is politics.

All politics is local.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.