Michael N. Castle Quotes

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

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

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

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

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

What our children become, so becomes our nation. It is plain common sense to give our children the best education possible so that they can develop into productive responsible citizens contributing economically, socially and politically to our democratic society.

We can’t leave the job of leadership to the leaders.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

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

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

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

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

What its children become, that will the community become.