Debi Mazar Quotes

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

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

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

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

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

When you travel and when you campaign, people tell you their problems. You see the problems and you become aware of them and you talk about them every day. And so you feel the responsibility for doing something about them.

Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.

I've been able to meet a lot of vets at different functions and events, and it just hit me that I should step it up a notch, and I have a lot of peers who feel the same way.

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

There is nothing that says you can't be active and love your community and fight for your community and still do your job.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

You can complain about problems, and you can suffer from the ramifications of issues that are social in nature and impact you, but the best thing you can do is get off your couch, get out of your home and go do something about it.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

I think it's important to not just think about what you want but what's needed in the world.

I think our duty as American citizens is to be involved and engaged in anything that affects us. As an artist, I have to use my platform, and as a dad, a brother, and a black man, I have to be as socially woke and present as possible.

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.

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

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.