Arlen Specter Quotes

If you want to come fight the good fight to make a difference for people and to try to get the government back on track, where we govern from the middle and not from the extremes, then understand that it's a lonely road, and you're going to have a hard time.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

You have to decide to create the society you want to create, and that's done through politics.

I've always been political.

I never thought of joining politics, but found AAP as perfect choice for someone like me.

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

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

I am such a political person.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

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

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.