Sandi Toksvig Quotes

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

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

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.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

Even if you didn't want to have anything to do with the politics, you have to.

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 am such a political person.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

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

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

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

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

I never think about politics more than 18 hours a day.

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?

I want people to know my political point of view. There's an appetite for that, almost an expectation. I also want to make people laugh, but I wouldn't want to do it at the expense of my point of view.

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.

I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.