Quotes about Involvement

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

I know how irritating it is when a producer puts his hand in everything.

All of us who care about the world going forward would like to engage the government more.

I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I was the stage dad.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.

Also while I was at Missouri, I was elected president of the Burall Bible Class—a huge class made up of students from both Missouri and Stephens College. Growing up, I had always gone to church and Sunday school every Sunday; it was an important part of my life. I don't know that I was that religious, per se, but I always felt like the church was important.

Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.