Quotes About Contribution

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

I am part of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. By that, I mean that I am fortunate to be a wealthy American, and I say, 'It's okay to raise my taxes.'

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Yes, it is always good to contribute, but the most important thing is where we finish on the points table. That is more important to me than how many runs I score.

It's always good for us to score as attacking players and to help the team get the three points.

Without the U.K. contribution to policing and anti-terrorism, the whole of Europe would be less safe.

Black History Month is an annual opportunity to recognize the central role of African Americans in our state's economic, cultural, social and political history.

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.

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

I have a very clear, genuine vision about what political work should be, what politics and politicians should contribute to the nation.

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.