Sam Altman Quotes

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

I worked on congressional campaigns when I was a teenager. I did United Way fundraisers when I was a teen. We advocated; we spoke out. I protested the first Iraq War in college.

No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

Activists set the agenda for the practitioners.

As to politics, I am doing what I can for the cause.

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

I have been apolitical all my life.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.