Robbie Williams Quotes

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

Sports and politics don't mix.

We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

Now, when our nation to ruin's brink is verging, let us speak while there is time! Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging. Silence is crime!

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

I canceled the Russian shows because, from the days of the first Dire Straits album, I've supported Amnesty International. It's not a good thing to read about people being jailed for no reason, so I raised my hand and made a small objection. It was good to do - but where do you stop?

I don't get all these pop stars who sit on the fence when they're asked for an opinion. People are scared of speaking out. They're too worried about the consequences - like they might lose a few fans if they give a serious opinion.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

You know, I had grown up standing on public sidewalks, saying things that people, you know, were very provoked by and were upset by. And - but standing outside that first soldier's funeral, it was eerily quiet.

You have a lot of people asking for town halls with the purpose of disrupting a town hall.

One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of the people to determine what's right and what isn't, what's obscene and what isn't, and what's immoral and what isn't.

I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.