Engaged Quote by Jeff Greenfield

I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously.

— Bob Beckel

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

— Ivan Krastev

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

— Robert Kane Pappas

“They see in the political apathy of the proletariat only the apathy, not the protest against a system that has nothing to offer them.”

— Red ARMY FACTION

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

— Alain de Botton

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

— Charles Kennedy

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect…

— Walter Lippmann

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief…

— H. L. Mencken

You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

— Chuka Umunna

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

— John Podhoretz

Ed Miliband's anti-immigration stance is odd: it's hard to vote for a man who doesn't have the confidence to defend his own existence.

— Frankie Boyle

In politics, when you become serious, you become a threat to somebody. And they usually aren't too nice about it.

— Lyndon LaRouche