Dario Fo Quotes

To secure a full effect to your object, it will be necessary that you should meet and consult together for the common good in your towns and counties. It is in dark and trying times that this constitutional privilege.

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy.

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.

We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Our nation must come together to unite.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.