Best quotes by Jose Antonio Vargas on Politics

Checkout quotes by Jose Antonio Vargas on Politics

  • At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.
    - Jose Antonio Vargas
  • As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.
    - Jose Antonio Vargas
  • I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.
    - Jose Antonio Vargas
  • We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.
    - Jose Antonio Vargas
  • To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
    - Jose Antonio Vargas
  • As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
    - Jose Antonio Vargas