Quotes About Participation

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

When I was in school, I would participate in almost every possible competition. I also went on to represent my school and college.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

Since girls and women represent 50 percent of the world population, enabling them to participate in their local economies helps broaden the employment pool.

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.

The audience is an absolutely critical part of 'Question Time' and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

We know that greater participation in our democracy will make our government more responsible and make elected officials more representative of the people we serve. Making that participation easier while improving the integrity and security of our elections is something we should all be able to support.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

It certainly seems to me we would like to bring in the best and the brightest individuals here to participate in this republic.

Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.