Quotes About Participation

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

I definitely used to dream of sitting in the movie theatre watching the 'Star Wars' credits come up knowing I was part of one of those films.

I didn't come to Washington D.C. sit on the sidelines.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Illness is, after all, one of the few truly universal human experiences; to write in response to it necessarily demands active participation

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

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.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

The definition of a good game is therefore "one that teaches everything it has to offer before the player stops playing.

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

citizen participation in planning and well understands that that can happen only at the neighborhood level.

On one level, the Catawbas' participation in the Revolutionary War worked to their advantage. While most Native American nations had to face retribution for choosing the wrong side, the Catawbas fared somewhat better.

Start living life; stop looking at it

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.