Quotes About Participation

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

I like to be interactive, engage with fans and all that and I think the route I took, staying at home, is definitely going to help with that.

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

I'm just trying to affect the game in some way whenever I get an opportunity. If that's stealing a base, making a catch, beating out a double play, whatever it may be.

The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.

As governor, I'll focus on these concrete steps to make it easier to vote and include every community in our democratic process.

Aside from being the funniest play in N.Y.C., '39 Steps' is also the only show crazy enough to ask me to be a part of it.

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In the years before then, he recalls, a very different breed filled the party's precinct positions; the sort of folks who "would donate a thousand-dollar check to the Republican Party, and do not a darn thing.

He was not a particularly emotional man: he had never chosen engagement when the role of observer was available.

Information is the currency of democracy

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

By consenting to God's creation, to our basic goodness as human beings, and to the letting go of what we love in this world, we are brought to the final surrender, which is to allow the false self to die and the true self to emerge. The true self might be described as our participation in the divine life manifesting in our uniqueness.

Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of its own choices.

change should mean more participation—but by informed voters through institutions that are not constantly and immediately at the mercy of a majority.

Conceiving a development project without women's participation is like using only four fingers when we have ten.

If I can't play, there's no reason to go. To watch the game without me in it, is just no point doing that.

I like the noise of democracy.

The live events are more interactive for the fans. With TV, you have the cameras there, commercial breaks where the fans can tell there's a down moment. At the live events, it's non-stop. We get to play with the audience; the crowd gets to get involved a little more. It's a very intimate feel.

If you want to get players to your game, it's hard to get them there at noon.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.