Bill O'Reilly Quotes

I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.

I think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing. And you want those voices heard.