Zell Miller Quotes

I was so disappointed by the 2012 election that I decided I had to do something. And I thought, 'I have something to offer - I should be able to have a seat at the table.'

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

Working people vote!

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've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.

I haven't been very active in politics.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

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 believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

The first time I voted, I voted for myself.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

I hold the opinion that it is lawful [for a Muslim] to participate in elections [in non-Islamic countries], as this may reduce suffering, and it is a way to choose the better among the available candidates. I believe participating in elections will, in any event, contribute to the reduction of evil and be a forum for countering bad policies and exposing their deficiencies, as well as being an opportunity to present proposals of a different kind that may help people.

We're all candidates all the time. Claude Pepper is eighty seven, and he's worried about redistricting in 1992.

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

Political involvement is more than a game.

If somebody asks me where I stand, I tell them. And that's not a way to get elected, generally. Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States. What I'd like to do is to be able to influence the dialogue. I'm a citizen