Mohammad Hamid Ansari Quotes

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

The very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs however little influence my voice may have in them.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty to work hard for the agenda of the country.

I think it doesn't actually matter what your political persuasion is, but if you are interested in the country that you live in and the way in which it's run, everyone has to do something about that.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.

An actual residence of such a length of time as would give a man an opportunity of esteeming the Government from knowing its intrinsic value, was essentially necessary to assure us of a man’s becoming a good citizen.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

Without care, there is no democracy.

Somebody is going to be making the laws for this entire country. It could be you. Will it be you?

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.