Julie Payette Quotes

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

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

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.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

The members of the Church, as members of society, have the same right and duty to promote the common good as do other citizens.

We can’ t renew our country unless more of us—I mean all of us—are willing to join churches.

The object of Socialism is not to render the individual capable of living on his personal resources. That is the theory of radical individualism. Its object is to create in him a greater and greater sense of his dependence upon the state, and, at the same time, to inculcate in him the conviction that he is a part of it and that he has a duty and responsibility toward the state; and that only in so far as he fulfills this duty can he benefit by the advantages of a complete personal and social life.

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.

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

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

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.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

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

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

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.