Steven Ford Quotes

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

I have always been an active part of my community.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

I'm pleased about representing any portion of Montclair.

I've become more of a citizen and more of an activist.

There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

Political involvement is more than a game.

Political service is important because it's about helping others help themselves. That was engrained in me from a young child.

For me, getting young people engaged in politics and public service is really one of the most fun things that I get to do.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.

I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.