Quotes About Getting Involved In Politics

#1. Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. - motivated by his faith - brought about an end to segregation in our country.

Frank Wolf

#2. The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken

#3. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#4. You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. [on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.]

Alexis Bledel

#5. Only the writing of fiction keeps fiction alive.

Eudora Welty

#6. Sounds like a great place to get killed. Hard pass.

Jackson Lanzing

#7. To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking at a world now sharp and small and not quite real, now standard in size and real but blurred.

V.S. Naipaul

#8. Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

James Otis

#9. You are my everything," I say, lips moving against hers. "I've said it before and I will say it again, and I'll go to my grave saying it. You are my star, my light, my love. And it doesn't matter if you believe in it or not because it is the truth and the truth always finds a way to shine.

Karina Halle

#10. Any company trying to compete ... must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

Jack Welch

#11. An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Plato