Marianne Williamson Quotes

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

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.

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

The danger of democracy has always been the danger of an electorate seized by passivity.

Among the foremost benefits of free government is that education of the intelligence and of the sentiments which is carried down to the very lowest ranks of the people when they are called to take a part in acts which directly affect the great interests of their country.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for president. One hopes it is the same half