Quotes About Participation

If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.

Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

When it comes to free speech and participation in the democratic process, our laws should reflect the goal of making it easier for more citizens to engage.

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.

I've remained somewhat active in the public sphere with various things, including the occasional film.

It's time for the fathers to get involved in the spiritual activities of their families. For too long, the women have carried more than their share of family responsibility.

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient.

And you would like me to get mixed up in this somehow?

You are blessed with a good mind. You just have to have confidence in it and talk when people call on you.

began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

You're a witness. You're always standing around watching what's happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in. Until you do, you'll never be a writer, Eugene.