Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

We're prepared to place our trust in the people to reshape the government. Our liberal friends place their trust in the government to reshape the people.

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

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.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

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

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

We are not perfect. Democracy is a messy business … Democracy depends on people getting and keeping involved … In our democracy, the government is not them; it is us.

With any bureaucracy, an accountable bureaucracy, we need the press and we need critics to keep us on our toes…. we do wish the press to continue to report and continue to criticize because it is only in that way that the government can continue to improve and meet the aspirations of an increasingly affluent society.

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

I will involve everyone to make Delhi an ideal state.

As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy.

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

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