Tim Ryan Quotes

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

It's my goal to show the world that Americans know how to help Americans without expecting the government to come riding in on a white horse and save the day.

Take care of yourselves, and each other.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

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

We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

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.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

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.

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

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.

You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.

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

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.