Quotes About Empathy

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people in a genuine way.

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

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

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

The best politics is no politics.

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I know I can do nothing about pollution in Mumbai. I die when I feel helpless when my loved one is in pain.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

I am a poor hater.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'