Community Initiative Quotes

Now technology gives you a chance to help organize. You don't have to wait for either the inefficiency or the corruption. You don't have to wait for government. You can actually self-organize and build institutions bottom up.

A woman in my local area decided to put on an opportunity for girls to come and play football for £2 each Sunday. That's how I started.

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Nations are not built by governments alone. The government can at best be a facilitator, and a trigger for society's innate entrepreneurial and creative instincts.

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.