Bob Dylan Quotes

Sometime between elections we should concentrate on doing something.

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

If we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964. It isn't that time is running out—time has run out!

Mr. President, If you don’t do something and do it right away, I don’t know what is going to happen to this country.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

My message to you is very clear: Wake up, America!

I'm an activist.

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and we're encouraging people to come and to join us and to insist that we need to be included.

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.