Famous Quotes & Sayings

Americans United to Protect Social Security - which successfully mobilized to stop Bush's Wall Street Social Security plan - grew directly out of our work to build a nationwide activist coalition to oppose Social Security privatization. This new campaign, organized with a broader issue mandate, will build on and amplify the work of the Campaign for America's Future and many other groups around the issues of cleaning up corruption in government; health care; energy independence and the other 'kitchen table' economic issues Americans care about.

They needed to show their base and activist organizations on the liberal side that they were true-blue, and that explains how they behaved as they did.

Matt Blunt

This is an outrageous order from an activist federal judge that offends Missouri values, ... I call on the attorney general to vigorously pursue all available legal options to overturn this offensive federal mandate. It is time for him to aggressively argue that this is an inappropriate use of taxpayer resources and contrary to state law.

Nancy Keenan

They are coming clean on how meaningless his evasive 2003 testimony was. It's now even clearer than before that the far-right activists who've been turning handsprings in celebration of Roberts's nomination are getting exactly what they wanted: a proven activist opponent of personal freedoms like a woman's right to choose.

It's kind of a low-cost appeal to conservatives outside of Massachusetts. He's looking for things he can do to say to conservatives -- especially Christian evangelical activists -- 'Hey I'm with you,'.

It's a sad day for American when a small group of very determined activists are dominating the awards ceremony.

He's truly a renaissance individual for our times, ... I've likened him to a Will Rogers voice in Congress (with) humor (and) common sense. He brought real legislative achievements, working on environmental issues for Southern California ... working on issues for the voters of California by protecting their will against activist judges. He was a well-rounded and dedicated lawmaker.

Even though the president's job-approval numbers are down a bit, the RNC is still raising money at a record clip. It's likely a case where it's the party activists that give, and they give no matter what. And perhaps they give more when the party faces challenges.

Dennis Potter

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values. He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.

Dennis Potter

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values, ... He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.

Bill Richardson is something of a blank slate to New Hampshire Democrats at this point, even to the core of activists who are paying attention now.

Activities like that are really good for the city and the activist community.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.

Todd Akin

Activist judges are trying to institutionalize a lie that marriage is just about big people relationships, but they forget the little people, the whole generation of kids who will struggle with this terrible precedent.

William Baldwin

I've always said that I was an activist before I became a celebrity.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

These companies just don't understand that reparations activists are not after apologies and racial reconciliation. They want money.

Rebecca MacKinnon

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.

This type of investigation is really a form of intimidation and a message to activists that they will pay a price for speaking out, ... The posting of publicly available information about people who are in the news should not trigger an investigation.

Rebecca Solnit

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

I've spoken to some lesbian and gay (city) employees and I asked them to be here, but they are concerned that becoming activists will prevent them from getting promotions.

Jon Meacham

Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us all forward.

Johann Lamont

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

J. M. Coetzee

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

Jacob Sullum

What the anti-fat activists are saying is, people don't want what they ought to want, and therefore the government has to coercively change what they want.

Phyllis Schlafly

We will not stand activist judges who legislate from the bench, who remake our culture. ... We will not tolerate judges who change the rules of our written Constitution. You, the American people, play a big part on how to deal with these out-of-control judges. ... The answer is in your hands.

Arresting a few leaders and activists is not going to stop us from holding the protest rally. Thousands of people will pour out into the streets (Saturday).

Mark Regev

Arresting a few activists in a particular atrocity is simply not enough. This group has to be thoroughly disarmed. If not, they will continue to wreak havoc, murdering innocent civilians and killing the chance for peace.

The issue activists march. The electoral activists are talking to other students, they are working at campaign headquarters, and they are making trips to New Hampshire and Iowa and beyond.

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

I know, personally, how frustrating it can be as an activist with your eyes open, really seeing what?s happening.

Mathew Staver

Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.

This is a very activist union movement, ... Because they can't mobilize people within companies, they often have to go into the streets.