Quotes About Participation

I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.

We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.

Something that I think extends to a lot of African cultures is that the line between performer and audience is blurry. My mom would lead the wedding song regularly, and she isn't a professional singer. Even as an audience member, you're expected to clap and sing the response to the lead.

First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

I liked the give-and-take of a policy discussion in the community, with citizens. I didn't know that even took place, frankly, but I never dreamed it would be an enjoyable thing to do.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.

When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.

Political parties - which too often operate like closed circles - must open up.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

I will not accept that a Lebanese political party participates in maneuvers that serve the interests of Iran.

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

Donating to a political party is a social good. It enables democracy and good things to happen in our communities.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

I am committed to growing participation in the political process and doing it the right way.