Joe Lieberman Quotes

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

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.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

Human Needs Project is really about how to come up with a different approach to helping, really focusing on the dignity of people living in communities you are not a part of, and how to approach these communities with help, but more look at it as an investment and a collaboration with these communities rather than, 'Here comes the white savior!'

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

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

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change? What needs to be built, or what's valuable and needs to be maintained? Is it the people? Local animals? Your parks or gardens? Hospitals?

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

Strong communities shape their own futures.

For too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal.

An ‘enabling society’ is one where individuals have declared rights and can achieve their full potential, where a sense of community thrives in the open acceptance of duties, obligations and responsibly for others, and where effort is respected no less than altruism is encouraged.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

I'm a fan of making sure our community grows and that we are always compassionate and remember our place in the world.