John Lennon Quotes

From the moment I came out of the womb, I have been a political animal.

I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.

The political is personal.

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

We are not apathetic in this country.

I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.

I obviously grew up with politics and have always been interested in ways in which people can get involved with it and be stimulated by it.

People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were.

Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

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

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

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

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.