Quotes About Participation

Toyota is doing a neat job coming in to the sport - no one ever thought that there would be a day when Toyota would participate in an American-made, American-born sport like Nascar but they're doing a fantastic job.

I used to run track in high school and was unexceptional in every way.

I ran track, and basically played every sport.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.

But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Of course they do. It's like an elaborate game of fetch—ow!

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

An American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

The one thing you've got going: your one vote.

Unless nominees are chosen democratically, with the widest possible participation in the process, nothing else really matters.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

People can't put on an opera, but they can write a poem. It's accessible art.

The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we make it partly real.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.