Susan George Quotes

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

As to politics, I am doing what I can for the cause.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

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.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

I campaign all the time.

Advocacy: Advocacy for America

Political involvement is more than a game.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is our cause. Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. That is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America. We wrote it together - now let's go out and make it happen together.

I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls.

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man.

Raising awareness for Nepal was and still is an important role for me.

I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

The more I hear about Eddie Izzard's political agenda, the more sympathetic I feel. I cheer him on in his cause, but I fear he faces an uphill battle.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create change.

I think we sometimes forget that we have so many other places to create change. My dad taught me this, but the political is one spot to make change. But so is writing a book.

If the only time you bang the drum is when it's time to get someone elected, and you don't get involved in a mass movement, then you're working against real and substantive change.

One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.

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