Quotes About Participation

Voting rights are about the foundation of our democracy.

Voting rights is not just some other issues alongside other issues, it gets to the heart of who we are in the first place - a democracy!

In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.'

Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer.

We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

I firmly believe the Senate should see more voting and debate and less standing around and waiting for backroom deals.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.

Everyone is an athlete. You want to go hiking, you want to go biking, you want to go jogging or for a walk? You're automatically an athlete.

Most people have been on a baseball diamond and a basketball court. At least once in their life, they've walked across a football field. But relatively few people have ever set foot inside a boxing ring.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

It's a gratifying feeling to be in the middle of so many people, speak to them on different issues, meet people from all walks of life in panchayats.

I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.

It is definitely what my aim is to get everyone to do their part and take on that responsibility of being a leader - whether you are playing or on the bench or if you have not made the team.

I don't want to just be part of a team, I want to help a team, and I don't want anyone to say I rode the bench to get a ring.

It is not a problem to sit on the bench: absolutely not. When you have three games in a week, and you don't play, though, you have to think about it.

No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.

It would be worse if I have players who are happy if they sit on the bench, because that doesn't mean that we develop our game.

To watch a game from the TV, it's very different from the bench.

I think it's always good to learn on the court instead of being on the bench.