George Takei Quotes

I haven't been very active in politics.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

Political involvement is more than a game.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

If you look at the well-informed Democratic Sanders activists - I don't know if you were in Philadelphia, but there was no secret about their enthusiasm for our campaign. But once you got more remote from the super activists in the Bernie [Sanders] camp, they don't know so much about our campaign. And the question is whether they are going to have a chance to be informed.

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

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

I am such a political person.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

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

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

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.

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

You'll never find a candidate that you can identify 100 percent with unless you become one yourself.

From the moment I came out of the womb, I have been a political animal.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

Be it bumper stickers on your car, yard signs on your lawn, a letter to your local newspaper or member of Congress, the Internet or a voluntary contribution of your own hard earned money to candidates or party of your choosing, these are all constitutionally protected means of participation in our democracy.