Martin Sheen Quotes

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

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

I am such a political person.

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.

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

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

I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

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.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

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