Janet Reno Quotes

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

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.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

We are not apathetic in this country.

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.

Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.

My mother said, 'Did you ever believe you would be an activist?' I said, 'No, not really.' But I just felt in my heart that I needed to step up and be a leader in the forefront.

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

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 think more people are engaged in the issues I want to talk about.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

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 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 could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.