Kevin de Leon Quotes

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

I've always believed in local government.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Africans must stand up for themselves and that the strategies and tactics of the struggle should be determined by the African people themselves, and not by others.

The first time I voted, I voted for myself.

Democracy should be home grown.

The moment responsibilities of any community, particularly in economic and social questions, are shifted from any part of the nation to Washington, then that community has subjected itself to a remote bureaucracy.... It has lost ... control of its own destiny.

Good government can be no substitute for self-government.

I have not much faith in "good government." What we need is the development of the individual.

Each county elector makes his own rules

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

If you asked a Singaporean, on the one hand they'll say, 'Let us do our own things.' On the other hand, when an issue comes out, they'll ask, 'What is the government doing about it?'

One thing I'd tell an up-and-coming singer is to never rely on other people for anything. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better off you'll be.