Pierre Salinger Quotes

I am not interested in state politics.

I never considered politics as an option, not ever.

I kind of became apolitical.

I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.

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

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

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.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

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.

I don't miss politics.

Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

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

My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

I am a Virginian, so naturally I am a politician.

From the moment I came out of the womb, I have been a political animal.

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

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.

Most Hoosiers aren't really political people.

I don't talk about politics. Not getting involved in politics at all.

I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

Politics is a big no-no for me. I'm not a person who can go through that journey in life.

As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?

I have never been political in a partisan sense.