Saul Bellow Quotes

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

I am such a political person.

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

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

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

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

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?

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 will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

You can't build a lasting political movement based on hostility to government.

The nebulocity known as the international community is ultimately accountable to nobody.

Public policies in our democracy are eventually a reflection of public opinion," so public opinion must be reshaped if we are to avoid disaster.

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.