Austan Goolsbee Quotes

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

The best way you make policy in Washington is by doing it yourself.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

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

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

View talk radio not as entertainment but as a tool for organizing and action.

The lack of political attention to candidates and issues, history has shown us, is a sure-fire way to end up left out of the policy debates altogether. We need to continue to educate our elected officials and candidates for office on who we are, what we need and why they should stand in solidarity with us.

The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

The work that Rock The Vote does is incredible. So it's cool to collab with such an iconic organization.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.

I think more people are engaged in the issues I want to talk about.

As an athlete, there are limits to my ability to reach out, a platform that politics can offer.

It's so hard to predict the political environment. I think that business can't sit on the sidelines and just watch. I think we need to be a force for the values that we believe in. We need to partner with government and regulators.

We're promoting the concept of public engagement. It's as much about what clients do as how they say it. It's about being in people's lives, taking on relevant, of-the-moment issues.

I genuinely do want the world to change in a positive way, but I wouldn't call myself an activist, you know? I'm an entertainer who engages with activism because it feels really meaningful for me.

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.

I grew up outside of Washington D.C., a town in which the largest industry is government and in which almost everyone I knew was involved in creating policies which impact people across our country and around the globe.

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

I'd already been doing work in the community... But when it comes to how to actually amplify your voice, when I saw what Colin Kaepernick did and the amount of coverage and conversation around it, that's when I truly realized how much influence we have as athletes.