Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is when the marathon ends and the sprint begins. For journalists and activists and candidates and campaigns, Labor Day is the first day of real intense campaigning.

It helps the bear out to not have to keep his mouth closed the whole time. It's kind of unfair to the bear to keep him muzzled. We want it to be fun. We don't want it to be a sport. That's why the animal activists don't know what they are taking about when they come out here and try and go against what we do.

Cindy Sheehan

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.

Justin Sane

I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protests way before I was born. And once I was born, they raised me in that activist environment.

Jonathan Tisch

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

This is a critical moment for Iran. Iranian activists need to know that American students are ready to help them hold the Iranian regime accountable. We want to help our counterparts in Iran seize the moment and advance their civil rights movement.

The cause of reform is hurt, not helped, when an activist makes an idiotic suggestion.

Andrea Bronfman was a pillar of her family and the entire Jewish community. She was an activist as well as a philanthropist.

Whitney Tilson

The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists are doing. For every dollar of activist money involved in a campaign, there is usually at least $10 of non-activist money involved.

The unfortunate thing has been this activist group has had so much media exposure that it's been untruthful, and we need to get behind us and start from square one with the media and with this group.

Allen has a position within the ideological spectrum of the Republican Party that serves him well in a primary. He's really appealing to the party activists within the Party. And that's good for candidates who are running in primaries.

Privacy groups and activists have sounded the alarm, accusing a lot of these companies of forming affiliate relationships as a way of getting around privacy restrictions,

People see something on TV they don't like, and some activists yell from the rooftops calling for more government intervention, but that's not what people want,

No Republican can win their party's presidential nomination without the institutional backing of Republican power-brokers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Over the past few months, we have seen John McCain back anti-marriage amendments, stump for anti-gay activists running for elected office and demonstrate his dependence on social conservatives.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the activist group associated directly with the Women's Center.

The one-person, one-vote cases are the example of the judiciary being the most activist ever . . . it led to the redrawing of districts for almost every representative institute in the United States, from the smallest town council to congressional delegations.

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.

There's a strange minuet going on. In some ways, even the activists feel they could do a lot worse than Roberts, but they can't say it. They have to put up some kind of fight.

Bill Crawford

There's a whole group of south Scottsdale activists who were disenfranchised. If you acknowledge those people it means so much to them.

Amending the state constitution may be the only way to prevent activist judges from destructively reshaping the centuries-old definition of marriage.

Ed Rendell

America has lost one of the great civil rights activists of our time. ... She did it with dedication, class, grace and dignity,

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.

Larry Sabato

This is red meat for Democratic activists. Many Democrats wonder if she can be elected in November 2008, so she has to keep the activist Democrats onboard. They're the ones who vote in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.

Paul Di Filippo

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.

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.

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.

Robert Metcalfe

Energy has got to be one of the top five problems the world faces, and it's been frustrating to watch activists and politicians fail to solve the problem. Now it's time for the entrepreneurs and scientists to give it a try.

Jim Oberweis

A state Constitutional Amendment is necessary because, as we have seen elsewhere, activist judges have overturned statutory protections of marriage.

Dave Douglas

Did Brown simply mean you had to stop segregating children, or did it mean a more activist program was needed?

Barry McGee

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.