Paul Collier Quotes

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.

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.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

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

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

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.

People were asleep, but I think they're waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they've got to get involved.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

I want to be at least part of the change in Congress.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

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

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

I am such a political person.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.