Bob Riley Quotes

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.

Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...

I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

It is not one government or another that can solve all of the problems. It's you.

The main and basic responsibility for effecting a solution of the Black man's problems rests upon American Negroes themselves. They should supply the money and pay the price, make the sacrifice and endure suffering to realize full manhood as Black Men.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense grass-roots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to take our responsibility.

We make our own history. The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voices of the people themselves.

People say that the government should be doing this Yeah, but the government is not doing this. So we do.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

... the even more fundamental task that lies before the leader of a democracy is to bring to the people the realization that true democracy is the effort of the people individually to carry their share of the burden of government.

If people come out of an election and everyone’s despairing, everyone’s in a collective civic funk, we don’t get anything done. Simply reminding people of how bad things are and what you lost, nobody’s moved by that. People are moved by the sense of possiblity, a sense of hope.

I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and music is that vehicle to summon our better angels. Music is that vehicle and always has been a vehicle to challenge us to build a better America.

If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.

We can't sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.

It is open for anyone to have freedom of speech, and I guess we can all play a role in trying to make a difference in the world. Particularly if your leader is not helping in that area.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.