Areas Quote by Jill Stein

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot…

— Ron Conway

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

— Shane Claiborne

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign…

— Anonymous

Local politics is just as important as national - and often easier to influence.

— Celeste Ng

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical…

— Eric Alterman

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens…

— Mo Ibrahim

I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy.

— Eric Garcetti

It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing…

— Josh Fox

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

— Barack Obama

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you…

— Valerie Jarrett

I never get into local politics and believe in giving a long rope to people.

— Kirron Kher