Jimmy Buffett Quotes

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Liberalism is easy because it's emotion. You don't have to do anything to solve the problem. You just have to act like you care about it. Look at the liberalism that's on display. It's enraged; it is causing riots; it is endangering people.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to lose, those who feel that the time has come for revolution ... then out on the edges beyond any of those are science fiction fans whose favorite show has been canceled in an untimely way.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.

Those who are outraged will vote.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

I’m angry with what’s happening to our country and angry with myself that I can’t do more.

I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world.

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right?

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.

A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.