Zoe Kazan Quotes

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.

If somebody asks me where I stand, I tell them. And that's not a way to get elected, generally. Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States. What I'd like to do is to be able to influence the dialogue. I'm a citizen

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

I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

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 was not born for politics.

I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all that.

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

What does an actor know about politics?

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to address questions of this scale in the short time that we have to address them without engaging in real political change.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.