Jerry Brown Quotes

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

It Takes A Village

There is no such thing as society…There are individuals, men and women, and there are families.

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

I think what Punjab needs today is vigorous economic development and rebuilding of trust and social cohesion.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address growing inequality and the bitter antagonism between different communities in American society. We've been at our best when we've felt in significant degree that our fates bound up with each other, where we've had a very inclusive sense of the other, and that's now very much not the case.

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.

I hope that I can find the common thread that connects us all and say: We can build a better Canada together.

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We in Europe need to discuss how we can improve the community. That is the correct order.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.