"Politics is about the participation and engagement of……" — David Blunkett
"Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance."
More Citizenry Quotes
- Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. — David Brin
- The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
- You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is… — Sharron Angle
- The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded,… — William E. Simon
- [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the… — H. L. Mencken
- Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the… — Adolf Hitler
- Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded… — Edward Abbey
- The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And… — Joseph Sobran
- Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source… — Ezra Taft Benson
- One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed… — Jeff Cooper
- The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus… — Jeff Cooper
- Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. — Ronald Reagan