Quotes About Participation

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

Democracy is hard work.

I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It's very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

I never liked group work in school.

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

We want to strengthen democracy.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.