Quotes About Participation

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

The last thing you want to see is your great players in the press box or in the locker room.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.

I never went to any high school dances or proms unless I was playing in them.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.

Democratic debate must never end.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

I don't really mind where I play, as long as I'm playing. I'm just happy to be on the pitch - as long as it's not defensive.

I'm definitely active in the community down there in Charleston.

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be.

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.