Carl Hart Quotes

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

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.

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.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

You cannot make progress in a political vacuum.

Good ends can rarely be attained in politics without passion.

You cannot make elected officials … do what they will not do.

Policy makers do the right thing only if the public makes as much noise as possible.

You can get from a politician whatever you demand in this country. The great irony is that everybody complains about how it runs but not enough people direct their force and power directly at the politicians and make demands upon them. Ours is a system that abhors remoteness. If you're remote from this political system, it'll kill you.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.