Quotes About Participation

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

If we want to move forward, not just the Government but 125 crore Indians will have to do something.

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.