Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'

Road claims like these have become the weapon of choice by modern-day sagebrush activists trying to wrest control from federal government. It's time to stop.

Roger was a Democratic activist who was involved in many campaigns for several years, but if he was going around making promises for job interviews he was just lying.

Larry Holmes

Many activists around the country have been discussing this date.

We now have the Senate of the largest state in the nation endorsing marriage equality. This undermines President Bush's claim that this effort is being undertaken by a few activist judges.

Brian Johnson

I think the result will be you'll have a shareholder activist with a significant but not controlling interest who will lobby for a restructuring. For the first time, we could have someone who could look out for shareholders.

Jeff Sessions

I think conservatives do not have confidence she has a well-formed judicial philosophy, and they are afraid she might drift and be a part of the activist group like Justice Souter has, ... She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators.

The artist and the political activist are one. They are both shapers of the future reality. Both understand and manipulate the collective myths of the race. Both are warriors, priests, lovers, and destroyers.

Todd Akin

It has been brought on us by activist judges who have chosen to ignore the will of the people and instead redefine marriage for all Americans.

Judy Jacobs is not to be underestimated. She's a civic activist turned elected official and a seasoned politician. She cannot be taken lightly.

He claims it was precedent, but as an experienced judge, he knows better. Clearly, this is a ruling by a judge who is obviously an activist who legislates from the bench to enact his own agenda.

John Trudell

From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio.

Jim Jordan

He reminded Democratic activists this week how talented he is and how good he can be.

Kurt Eichenwald

If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

If Bank of America and other companies think they are buying peace from reparations activists with these million-dollar contributions, they are in for a rude surprise.

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

Amy Goodman

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

Kim Gandy

From the Bush administration's attacks on women's rights to preparing for a vacancy on the Supreme Court, NOW activists have our hands full protecting the advances we've made together over the past decades and moving forward on women's rights,

From the human rights activists in Syria, we have a picture that the Syrians have put the heat on anybody going to Iraq. They have arrested brothers, relatives going to Iraq to fight. They have arrested anybody coming back. Syria has been trying to crack down on these networks that are moving people through Syria into Iraq.

For too long, activists have gone unchallenged as they pressure the government to control broadcast television content, even though their idea of control has very little public support.

Ken Buck

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

Jeff Sessions

I have great confidence in her integrity and legal skills, but her judicial philosophy is not that well known. I think there will be some nervousness among grass-roots Americans who are unhappy with the activist tendency of the court, ... A lot will depend on how she testifies and how her philosophy of the law is revealed.

If the activists were never there, this company would still be stand-alone.

What may have saved him from the fate of many activists - death or jail - may have been the British Council.

Ron Wyden

My intention to vote for Judge Roberts tomorrow should in no way be construed as a weather vane for how I might vote on the next nominee, ... In the past I have not hesitated to vote against several of the president's nominees to the Courts of Appeal when they carried the ideological and activist baggage that I believe would be disruptive to our society.

Nicola Sturgeon

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

Tom Morello

Music is not some stuffy college lecture, ... On a good day, Rage Against the Machine is not able to just rock you like a hurricane, but also to fuel the engine with indignation and the band's activist convictions.

Roberto Clemente

My father was the 87th Latino to be in the major leagues, but he was the first one ... to be able to speak up and become an activist against prejudice, not only in baseball but also in society, and that took a lot to be able to do that.

John Sununu

Naturally, there exist concerns about what activist courts might do to undermine these rights and the Defense of Marriage Act, ... But it is premature to amend the Constitution based upon a hypothetical scenario.

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

She is an unsung hero. She's a community activist and a hard worker in the club.

Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.