Public Outreach Quotes

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

The ability to become more accessible, to spread a message further, and to share stories at a faster rate are great things to come from social media. As politicians, we have another platform with which we can reach people but also listen to them.

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

I campaign all the time.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

We will value public engagement.

We will send a petition to Washington with boots on.

Rules are not improved by sloganeering, fact-free letter-writing campaigns, or special pleading from interest groups.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

I can fight better on the outside. I can't fight too many Democrats on the inside like I can on the outside.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

I'll get 30,000 post cards on an issue before I can even find out that a bill has been introduced.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

You can spread awareness through entertainment.

I demonstrated through my work that I can rally other people to support legislation and get it passed.

A national campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism [the convention] and a couple of hangings thrown in. It is better, even, than war.