Alyssa Milano Quotes

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

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

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Forget being an actor-director: we, as citizens, have the responsibility to make the country a better place. And that doesn't mean advertising other people's agendas; it means looking at what is wrong and making it right.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

I encourage everyone out there to get involved.

There is nothing that says you can't be active and love your community and fight for your community and still do your job.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

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.