George Clooney Quotes

We are not apathetic in this country.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

Whether you have a hundred friends on Facebook or whether you're on TV or whatever, at every level, everybody has a platform. We all have a responsibility, given what's going on, to speak using that platform as much as we can, and to engage. Whether that's calling members of Congress, marching, getting involved locally, getting involved with Let America Vote, or if all you can get done during the day is you see the news and you want to make sure your hundred friends on Facebook know what you think about it, that is a really important part of this.

A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

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

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

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

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.

I think there are many ways to serve your country.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

I am determined to be a first class citizen.