Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.

We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.

Would I get into politics? I'll just say what I tell people when they ask me this: Pray that everyday citizens like me aren't pushed to that corner.

I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction and discouragement and disgust with what was going on in Washington.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens.

Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks.

The American people are frustrated.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

Increased town size hurts real democracy in two ways. First… it dramatically reduces the percentage of citizens who attend town meetings. Second, town size increases the number of citizens who attend, which dramatically reduces the percentage of these attendees who participate.”

Don't Let Your Government Speak for You!

A growing number of people in this country do not believe that it makes a real difference who is elected President of the United States.

Voters who are neither bound to the great political nor to any of the little sectarian divisions have no means of making their votes available.

Popular movements respond to the ups and downs of the headlines, to some extent

The social discontent in China today is massive

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.

I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see me as the person who can give voice to what they're feeling.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'