A Quote by Cory Booker

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

Cory Booker

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Cory Booker
American - Politician
Born: April 27, 1969

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

Michael Moore

I'm told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask what I do, they are a bit surprised when I say, 'A martial art, a full contact sport.'

Carmen Marton

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Mike Quigley

I think what HQ Trivia's done is taken the old-school idea of a trivia show - a quiz show - which has been around since the dawn of television, even radio, and made it a participatory event versus a spectator sport.

Scott Rogowsky

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

Michael Moore

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Keith Jackson

When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is a democracy in which everything is consulted with the people; it is a democracy in which every aspect and important decision that has an impact in the life and society of the people, is done in consultation.

Alejandro Castro Espin

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Vince Lombardi

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Duffy Daugherty

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.

Luis Enrique

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

Brian France

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Phil McGraw

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

Parker Palmer

When I first got into the sport it was all about who could cut the most weight, who could be the biggest on fight night. That's the same era when you're sparring 10 five minute rounds, new partner every two and a half minutes, that era of just really hard weight cutting and really hard full contact training.

Michael Chiesa

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

Danny Glover

Burma is not yet a full-fledged democracy. We have started working on the road to full democracy. We have a lot of things to do in order to build a democratic structure and to be become a full-fledged democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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