Adam Rickitt Quotes

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

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

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

If somebody asks me where I stand, I tell them. And that's not a way to get elected, generally. Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States. What I'd like to do is to be able to influence the dialogue. I'm a citizen

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 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.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

I haven't necessarily joined politics to become a leader but because it was the need of the time.

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

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'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.

I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

I am such a political person.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

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

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.