Alan Cranston Quotes

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

For me, the passions and issues I care so much about are ones that lend themselves to work whether you're in government or outside of government.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Nothing happens in America without pressure.

Advocacy: Advocacy for America

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

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.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

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

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

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

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.