Quotes About Participation

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

to be part of the fabric instead of a thread torn from the whole.

We are giving them the tools that will enable them to be active participants in solving the problems that confront them—now, while they're at home, and in the difficult, complex world that awaits them.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

We shall put an end to the age of our humiliation, to the blot of slavery and change the shame of every individual into pride at having participated in the greatest age of the German people, the age of the rise of the Germanic Reich of the German nation.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

There's something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

We need to start talking, to each other, about the issues that matter most. Otherwise, we are just pawns in the game of politics.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

People know crowdfunding, but they know it as something where one pays money for a cause or for products and so on. This is something where you contribute, but not money.

I don't think it's a bad thing to say everybody pays $10 and if you go to vote you get your $10 back. And if you don't vote that money goes to support the election process.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

Why did we lose Brexit? Why, because 60 per cent of youth didn't believe they needed to go and vote.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

We need organisations like Vote Leave to operate permanently to give a voice to those who otherwise won't be heard.

They have permission to play all the indoor games they want, but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

This vexed Theseus, and determining not to hold aloof, but to share the fortunes of the people, he came forward and offered himself without being drawn by lot. The people all admired his courage and patriotism, and Aegeus finding that his prayers and entreaties had no effect on his unalterable resolution, proceeded to choose the rest by lot.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.