N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

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

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.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

Politics is not a spectator sport. You can't just sit on the sidelines.

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For me, the passions and issues I care so much about are ones that lend themselves to work whether you're in government or outside of government.

I put all my time into Indian rights, and I think this is something I know something about, and I think that my time is best spent insofar as my political views are concerned.

I've always been interested in political service and community advocacy.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.

I worked on congressional campaigns when I was a teenager. I did United Way fundraisers when I was a teen. We advocated; we spoke out. I protested the first Iraq War in college.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.