Quotes About Participation

We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?'

Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.

I will always stand up to protect fair access to the ballot box.

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

Standing in the corner, it's not my game.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.

As an athlete, I feel like I have a little bit of control - or a lot of control - of the situation. When you're the in the stands, you have no control of the situation.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.