Quotes About Community

The Boys and Girls club was basically a second home for me, and I always credit it with keeping me out of trouble. From the ages of 6 to 16, I was there nearly every day.

I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience.

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

Hoboken is a neat place.

I love giving back. There were a lot of people when I got started who really helped me. I do a lot of seminars and appearances. It's neat to be able to be in a position to do that. I've always loved coaching; it's how I got started.

It's neat seeing people that aren't necessarily part of my demographic who really get the jokes. I love it.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

Most healthy people want to coach Little League, they want to go to church and they want to have great coworkers at the office and they want to put on faceplate when Nebraska's point football on Saturdays. That's the most natural way to live.

What was important to me was that I represented Nebraska.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.

Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.

A public is a necessary fiction.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.

That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

We are all fingers on the same hand. We may not look alike, but we are all needed.

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.