Andrew Goodman Quotes

With anything that happens in Cleveland, I always get involved.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

This [Washington DC] is the people's city, and the people of South Carolina have almost as much vested here as the people who live here.

I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: 'What can I do for my city?' not 'How much can I get out of my city?' I like people to speak now and then in the same devotion to State and Nation.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

I feel like I'm a part of the Boston community.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.