Quotes About Participation

I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.

We started thinking if we can have more people involved instead of less people involved, wouldn't that be a good thing?

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women