George W. Bush Quotes

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

Everything I do is political.

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 don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.

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

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no!

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

I don't comment on current politics.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments …

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

...the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling and cursing politics and the state of the nation. I made an effort and I am trying to fulfill my social responsibility.

I'm a walking political statement.

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.