Brian Baird Quotes

Don’t get involved with any political stuff.

Very few [Americans] ... take an active part in politics, however interested they may be in public affairs.

[Addressing businessmen regarding politicians:] I don't know why you're not involved in their business; they're involved in our [expletive] business every day.

I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

For me, I'm not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for me to engage in party politics and hear speeches and have discussions.

I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.

I love politics, love government, and I definitely want to stay involved. But I don't know if I'd ever want to run for office.

When I first covered [presidential election ] in 2008, I was asking questions for kids around the world, but mainly for myself. I didn't know the process, I didn't know how it worked. Now, of course, I'm more schooled on it, but I deal with so much politics in my fashion work and in Hollywood, that I haven't been as connected this time.

I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.

All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.

I never thought of joining politics, but found AAP as perfect choice for someone like me.

Would I get into politics? I'll just say what I tell people when they ask me this: Pray that everyday citizens like me aren't pushed to that corner.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.