Hozier Quotes

It is necessary to have lived in this insulator which is called the national assembly, in order to perceive how the men who are the most completely ignorant of the state of the country are almost always the ones who represent it.

I assure, the door to politics is never closed. Whatever medium is necessary to reach the masses, I will take that - be it cinema or politics.

People are really looking for greater sense of control of what happens in their lives, about the issues they really care about, and they feel that the political system doesn't necessarily deliver.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

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.

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

You can get from a politician whatever you demand in this country. The great irony is that everybody complains about how it runs but not enough people direct their force and power directly at the politicians and make demands upon them. Ours is a system that abhors remoteness. If you're remote from this political system, it'll kill you.

Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

My goal is to be able to speak to everyone in the country and to be able to make everyone in the country think differently about our political system.

I think all politics is local.

There's social media where people's politics are out there, they're forwarding articles and seem engaged, but it's only online. We tweet and pat ourselves on the back, thinking we have done something, said we're interested, but it needs more work.

The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.