Dan Crenshaw Quotes

Never you mind about the country, or about the state, or the city, or about the ward. You take care of your precinct.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

I think it's lovely when people are more involved in local politics.

I'm pleased about representing any portion of Montclair.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

Representing the people of Welwyn Garden City makes me intensely proud.

At the federal level, as a member of Congress, you have one vote out of 435, and in the Senate, it's one out of 100. So, the ability to get some stuff done exists as a much larger opportunity at a local level than in the federal government.

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.

I've always believed in local government.

People elect their representatives from the Gram Panchayat to Parliament. They vest their will and hopes in these representatives. In turn, the people's representatives devote their lives to the service of nation.

Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

All politics is local.