#participation

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike. ↗

— Carlos Mesa

#addressing #alike #cannot #challenge #gas

Is it possible that we ‘hate’ politics because we have forgotten its specific and limited nature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it be that our expectations are so high that politics appears almost destined to disappoint? Democratic politics cannot make ‘every sad heart glad’, as Crick argued, nor did it ever promise to do so. But not always getting what you want, an awareness that public governance is often slow and bureaucratic, a frustration that some decisions are hard to understand or have to be made in secret, disbelief and anger at the selfinterested behaviour of a small number of politicians, and an acceptance that some people will always take out more from the system than they put in—these are the prices you pay for living in a democracy. ↗

— Matthew Flinders

#participation #anger

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#anti-semitism #argue #been #cannot #citizens

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#civil #civil society #democratization #elements #imperatives

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#education #internet #meaningful #organisation #participation

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#active #becomes #being #intensely #many

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#areas #contribution #croatia #expand #expects

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#certain #contract #going #health #participation

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #december #demonstrations

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#cares #dividing #doubles #friendship #happy