Geoffrey Garin Quotes

A few people with a clear agenda can make a big difference in government.

I sincerely believe blogging can save America.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

There are reformers in every country.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

For me, the passions and issues I care so much about are ones that lend themselves to work whether you're in government or outside of government.

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

It's hard not to be political.

Everything I do is political.

I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.

I prefer social politics to politics.

The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in this country with the ultimate goal of making change.

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.

If we don't challenge each other to use our platforms for better than our niches or what our quote-unquote brand is, what are we doing as influencers? If we can't activate our audiences at the times it's important or needed, then what do we have these platforms for?

I love what I do. I would hate to give it up. But if I could, I would run for office in Texas. I would run someplace heinous to make a difference.

The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.

Millennials don't go to rallies.

I majored in history and political science at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and I have always loved researching how a single human being can change the course of history.

Freedom will not prevail because of historical forces; it will only win, if it does, because of historical actors. In other words, us. Those like me who came of age around 1989 used to take democracy for granted.

I believe that our country is going in the wrong direction, and I have a very strong desire to help out in any way that I can.

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