Jerry Falwell Jr. Quotes

We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.

I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.

My style is to service my community through entertainment and products.

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

I was very active in the Parks and Recreation department. I recall a lot of the things we had to do, from the trips for the department to organizing a Little League, those sorts of things.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

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.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

… the idea is to make the school useful to the community as a whole. It will be in use during the day for the children, but from the moment they are out of the building their elders may use it until they go to bed at night. It is to function as a community center …

It should not be a favor to provide a kindergarten to a community, nor a playground. To win hearts and minds — you are not going to buy that with a soccer field, for goodness sake. This should go without saying.

When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its missions is to help with HIV/AIDS awareness.

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls, putting out signs - things that the communications director probably normally wouldn't do.

Points of Light - through our affiliates in 250 U.S. communities and 15 international sites - engages 4 million volunteers in 30 million hours of service each year touching countless lives.

I'm big on my community and want to stay that way.

It is my responsibility to always have my ear to the ground on issues affecting the people of our district, and whether it's supporting the veterans of Michigan's 8th district or anyone else, I will always do my best to listen and follow through on the needs of folks here.

I think if you show a player an avenue to make a difference, he's going to bring that same intensity he brings on the field in his community.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

Recently, I was giving a speech and I said that it's time for many of us to "go home." Not necessarily to move back home but rather to go back to our communities and support those outreach programs and those people who could use our assistance.

I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.