If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.
We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.
I think governments can't do much.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.
It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.