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Quotes About Members

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.
~ David Blunkett
Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.
~ Jeff Duncan
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
~ Kerry Washington
The thing I enjoy most about campaigning is getting to have so many conversations with members. The downside is it takes away from the work of the union. I think that the work of the members is the most important thing.
~ Gabrielle Carteris
Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.
~ Russell M. Nelson
Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
~ John Blair
sole goal of the inception stage is to achieve critical mass by cultivating a small group of highly active members in the community. This group becomes the foundation upon which to build the community. Unless a small, active, group is established it is impossible to develop a successful long-term community.
~ Richard Millington
No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?
~ Richelle Mead
Pastor, creo que antes de alcanzar a estas personas nuevas debiéramos tratar de reactivar a todos los miembros viejos que han dejado de venir." ¡Esta es una estrategia que garantiza la decadencia de su iglesia! No da resultado. Por lo general, se requiere cinco veces más energía para reactivar a un miembro carnal o disgustado que a un inconverso receptivo.
~ Rick Warren
To summarize: CSICOP published a scientifically false report. They blocked all attempts by a member of their own Executive Council to inform members that the report was false. When their own selected referees agreed the report was false, they suppressed the referees' report. This went on over a period of four years (1977-1981) and if bungling explains the beginning of it, Rawlins's term cover-up certainly does not seem too strong for what followed.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
A community is an informally constituted group, larger than the family, within which there is a distinctive pattern of interaction, whose members share a feeling of common identity which may be no more than a simple recognition of friendship, and which possesses its own sub-culture, defining how the members of the community should conduct themselves and behave towards one another during their free time.
~ Kenneth Roberts
There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.
~ Cynthia McKinney
Don't water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Less fortunate members of the old animist system lost their stature and became either extras or silent decor in the great drama of man's relationship with the gods
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultra-democracy and the laissez-faire that destroys discipline.
~ zedong mao iii
with prejudice, but that's another conversation.) Second, even if one were to posit that there is such a cultural or ethnic entity as Semites, this argument assumes that members of a group cannot be prejudiced against their own. In fact, one of prejudice's most debilitating legacies is how the people targeted come to believe that the negative stereotypes thrown at them are true.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
by the members of the Hotamitanio, or Dog Soldier Society.
~ Dee Brown
Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.
~ Jason Stearns
We knew that members of the second expedition to Area X had committed suicide by gunshot and members of the third had shot each other.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
but the Constitution, in the second section of its first article, expressly declares that it "shall be composed of members chosen by the people of the several States.
~ Jefferson Davis
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials"). Here, he is serving notice to members of the clergy: It's people first, then paperwork.
~ Jeffrey A. Krames
One Toyota executive stated the sentiment well, "Team members are the only appreciating asset we have. Everything else starts depreciating from the moment we buy it.
~ Jeffrey K. Liker
When Christ comes, the members of His Church must look and act like members of His Church are supposed to look and act if we are to be acceptable to Him. We must be doing His work and we must be living his teachings. He must recognize us quickly and easily as truly being his disciples.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Any society, in order to survive, must mold the character of its members in such a way that they want to do what they have to do; their social function must become internalized and transformed into something they feel driven to do, rather than something they are obliged to do.
~ Erich Fromm