Helen Zille Quotes

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

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 like meeting people and I like being able to help.

I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

We're constantly looking for ways to reach people in Maine to talk to them, reassure them and share resources and ideas.

I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

It takes a lot of work to do this every day, every day, but I feel, as a sheriff, I should get to know my people. I serve them. They don't serve me. I serve them. They're my bosses, and the more people I can see and talk to, I love it.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.

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.

Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.

I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.

A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with it's very important.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

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

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.

I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.