Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You love what you love, and it bonds you with others who love the same thing.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

I enjoy sports in person.

The world is filled with great sporting events.

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

In order to encourage the free interchange of opinion and the enlightenment of the public, every Swedish subject shall have free access to official documents.

Parks and public space are … important to a democratic society because they are the only places where people meet as equals.

I've been a sports fan forever.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Familiarity breeds democracry.

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.