Eric Reid Quotes

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.

Political involvement is more than a game.

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

I don't know why, but I've had an interest and passion for politics.

Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.

I'm passionate about politics.

Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development and governance of a place.

I am happy in Bollywood, but I am contesting elections to solve problems of people, as they have trust in me.

Politics does not end the day of the election.

Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.

The privilege of a free society is that every man, woman, and child has the opportunity - and the obligation as a free people - to determine the trajectory of their country, of a political race.

I used to be of the opinion that it didn't matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin'. Which is true, but politics are still important.

I want to say it's important that you vote, that you get out there.

I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.

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

I didn't think politics had anything to do with our daily lives. I had never voted. Well boy I know now.

I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

Politics is about everything we do from the moment we get up in the morning to the minute we go to bed at night. It's something everybody and anybody can be involved in.

Not voting is disrespecting the best of what this nation stands for.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.