Quotes About Participation

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.

Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

Going out to France three years ago to watch Euro 2016 was massive and when I was there, stood in the crowd, I wanted to be part of that as a player.

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

People need to stop filming things at festivals.

The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn't going to be finessing a reprieve for the status quo. It's about actively creating consent for meaningful change, and expanding democratic participation beyond a second referendum.

But I think we have to enjoy the moment, because when it stops, it stops. And I think that as long as I'm fit, I need to be on the pitch, running.

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.