Quotes About Participation

Tennis, at times, I follow, but not much.

I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!

The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

An inherent tension between the seeming ineffectiveness of immediate and individual action and the long view the government is trying to take here may be common to every society trying to reduce emissions and to encourage participation.

If President Obama were to enroll in an American government class, the professor would mark him absent on most days. In the first 100 days of his second term, the president has failed to show up to class, take notes and complete the daunting task of rising to the challenges facing him.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

It seems to me that any reason for people getting more active in running or taking part in politics and government I think is just terrific.

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

It's always important not to fall for the narrative of the terrorists. If you want to fight for getting a normal life back, you also have to participate.

Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home.

Sounds like a good laugh. You can count me in!

That lesson is unambiguous: culture matters. But it cannot be imposed. If a government takes its legitimacy from the consent of the governed, so does a school. The full benefit and effect is obtained only when all parties involved share a common vision, entered voluntarily and by choice.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Reagan's second chief of staff, said it best: no other President of the modern era was so much a presence in the affairs of state without being an actual participant.

Yale political scientist Robert Dahl asked. "And if citizens cannot be political equals, how is democracy to exist?

The democratization of the Internet is integrally related to the democratization of the political economy. They rise and fall together.

Those are the sites that only allow you to be a listener and not a broadcaster. A site called Live365.com is different.

We need a seat at the table … If we're not at the table, we're probably on the menu.

Are you listening, Buckman? For that is your role in this conversation. You listen.' I