Emmanuel Macron Quotes

You can't build a lasting political movement based on hostility to government.

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

I am such a political person.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

I'm a young person; sometimes I'm political, sometimes I'm not.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

My first passion is politics.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.

I've always been political.

I have been apolitical all my life.

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

When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there has to be a revolution and this is a party for the young.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.