Grass Roots Movement Quotes

In our case, I, a working engineer, inventor and scientist, am bringing new innovation to campaigning to enable a grass-roots movement.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's not any good if there isn't a grass-roots movement going on to support it.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.

We are an ideological grass-roots group, and we use our faith to pick members.

We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

The Tea Party was a grass roots movement and then the Koch Brothers came along. So now we have the Tea Party on coke.

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

Reform and renewal come from below, not above. Do not await a reform messiah.

Your Majesty, we must do from above what the French have done from below.

When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it's the opposite of a true grass roots movement.