Grace Chatto Quotes

Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely to get involved.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

I'm a young person; sometimes I'm political, sometimes I'm not.

For me, getting young people engaged in politics and public service is really one of the most fun things that I get to do.

I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.

We're going to fight a Conservative government, we're going to fight it all the way. We're ready to do whatever it takes.

Hopeless people do not vote. They don’t think that they can change anything anymore.

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.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

Most Hoosiers aren't really political people.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

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

One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.

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?

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai Stevenson, and he took me to the Stevenson for President headquarters, and he volunteered me. That was my introduction to electoral politics, which was exciting and fun and thrilling and very theatrical.

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

For me, I'm not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for me to engage in party politics and hear speeches and have discussions.

I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.

The youth don't vote lawmakers into office, and as a result, they don't work for them.

I'm not super-political.