Margaret D. Nadauld Quotes

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.

I have always been an active part of my community.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.

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

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

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.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

I think I've been a great citizen.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

I like to go home and get involved in my community.

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

We can’ t renew our country unless more of us—I mean all of us—are willing to join churches.

I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.