Quotes and Sayings about Participation
"Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Life, Participation, Play, Training, Will)
"Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Government, Actions, Decisions, Democracy, Expression, Freedom, Participation, Popular)
"General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me."
- Benazir Bhutto
(Related: Credibility, Needs, Participation, Respect, Right, Vote)
"From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Time, War, African, End, Fact, Participation, states)
"I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec."
- Lucien Bouchard
(Related: End, Participation, Public)
"I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority."
- Tony Brown
(Related: Conflict, Participation)
"It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation."
- Gaston Caperton
(Related: Hope, Participation, Schools)
"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Needs, Participation)
"We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Friend, Wealth, Israel, Participation, Security, Stability)
"My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Intelligence, Knowledge, Battle, Doubt, Information, Order, Participation, Understanding)
"Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Example, Participation, Reform)
"As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights."
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Life, Work, Society, Rights, Human rights, Participation)
"Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God."
- Ralph Cudworth
(Related: Wisdom, Men, God, Knowledge, Angels, Nothing, Participation)
"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
- John Dewey
(Related: Experience, Happiness, Life, Meaning, Participation)
"Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children."
- Roma Downey
(Related: Love, Causes, Charity, Children, Participation, Years)
"I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Freedom, Future, Participation, Reason)
"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."
- Katherine Dunn
(Related: Women, Talent, Military, Participation, Soldiers)
"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Conflict, Participation)
"Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Society, Gender, Law, Participation)
"Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Muslim, Existence, Participation, World)
"The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe."
- Joschka Fischer
(Related: People, Elections, Europe, Participation)
"The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy."
- Jim Garrison
(Related: Jury, Participation)
"Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating."
- Tom Glazer
(Related: Participation)
"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."
- Johann G. Hamann
(Related: Nature, Ideas, Community, Participation, Symbol, Word)
"The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government."
- Albert Bushnell Hart
(Related: Government, People, England, Participation)
"My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad."
- Bob Hawke
(Related: Home, War, Danger, Participation, Result, Security, Wrong)
"I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine."
- Sidney Hillman
(Related: Benefits, Machine, Participation, Running, Wages, Will)
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."
- Shirley Hufstedler
(Related: Society, People, America, Children, Participation)
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
- Ted Hughes
(Related: Participation, Public)
"I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question."
- Lamar Hunt
(Related: Participation, Question, Soccer, Youth)
"There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it."
- Jam Master Jay
(Related: Participation)
"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well."
- Hamid Karzai
(Related: Peace, Afghanistan, Mission, Participation)
"The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls."
- Ayatollah Khamenei
(Related: People, Elections, Nation, Participation)
"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
- Jerzy Kosinski
(Related: Action, Being, Participation)
"As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are."
- Cyndi Lauper
(Related: Thought, People, Audiences, Participation, Singing)
"Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point."
- Karl Lehmann
(Related: Participation)
"And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same."
- James Levine
(Related: Men, Women, Housework, Participation, Years)
"Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Education, Awareness, Habits, Help, Participation, Retirement)
"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious."
- Daniel Libeskind
(Related: Life, Experience, Calculations, Obvious, Participation, Statistics)
"Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."
- Ernest Mandel
(Related: Class, Contradiction, Participation)
"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
- Wynton Marsalis
(Related: Democracy, Rights, Participation, Responsibility)
"Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant."
- Richard Morris
(Related: Participation)
"Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation."
- Amr Moussa
(Related: Participation, Solution)
"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."
- Daniel P. Moynihan
(Related: Act, Desire, Participation, Public)
"The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia."
- Lionel K. Murphy
(Related: Government, Development, Virtue, Nations, Participation, Planning)
"Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: Existence, Facts, Nerves, Participation)
"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."
- Li Peng
(Related: Countries, Participation, World)
"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
- David Prowse
(Related: Being, Fans, Participation, Questions)
"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."
- Charles Rangel
(Related: Government, Society, Citizenship, Country, Participation, Protection, Right)
"I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
(Related: Civil rights, December, First, Participation, School)
"During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known."
- Frederick Reines
(Related: Talent, Company, Participation, Project, Research, World, Years)
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Marriage, Time, Friendship, Participation, State)
"I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: Vision, Exploration, Participation, President, Prizes, Reality, Space)
"Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq."
- Ali A. Saleh
(Related: Peace, Iraq, May, Participation, Stability)
"Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Health, Work, Education, Development, Abuse, Job, Mental health, Participation, Prison, Training, Treatment)
"The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it."
- Hun Sen
(Related: Leaders, Participation, Will)
"Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests."
- Jenny Shipley
(Related: Women, Decision, Nations, Participation, United, Years)
"With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others."
- Iain Duncan Smith
(Related: Politics, Participation)
"I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries."
- DeForest Soaries
(Related: Congress, Countries, Country, Interest, Participation, Reform, Washington)
"Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered."
- Gustav Stresemann
(Related: War, End, Germany, Historians, Loss, Meaning, Nothing, Participation, State)
"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Health, Money, Education, Care, Culture, Participation, Poverty)
"We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation."
- Paul Wellstone
(Related: Politics, Participation)
"If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike."
- Dick Wolf
(Related: Health, Participation, Right, Saying, Television, Vote)