George W. Bush Quotes

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

My theory is this: Rather than having commentaries from the cheap seats, get involved and see what you can do. What can you do around your own community, within your own family, to try to improve race relations in our country? I think this is a responsibility that we all have as citizens.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

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.

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.