Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Forbes

You go wherever there are groups of activists willing to work. I have visited this state several times this year.

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.

To me, Bush is saying, 'I agree with the Democrats that the federal government ought to have an activist role.' He's becoming Democrat-light.

Larry Sabato

There is nothing the Democratic leaders can do. It's the Democratic activists who are whining and complaining who could help themselves by shutting their mouths. They're distracting attention away from what the election will be and should be about - the president and Congress. They're just giving the press something to write about.

Annalee Newitz

'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was astounding. It wasn't the professional activist class; it was grass-roots people who heard about it on TV and radio.

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.

Tom DeLay

It's an activist judge. He's trying to defend his position that's indefensible,

It's going to be the largest gathering of our members, activists and leaders ever. This is going to really be the first time that all of our activists are coming together to discuss where we should go and what we want to do nationwide.

That sounds to me like an activist judge.

Howard Dean

Each of their surprise disclosures has contained additional reasons for concern about whether Roberts would use his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to be an activist for an ideological agenda or an advocate for Americans' personal freedom.

Everyone's entitled to representation, but not every activist defense attorney is entitled to be governor of Virginia.

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.

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.

It's the loss of a personal friend here locally and the loss to Fresno overall of a physician activist in the community who helped shape policy toward public health and air quality in this community for the last five years,

Bobby Knight

It's the idea that well, maybe people aren't born a particular biological sex, or they are but that shouldn't determine their gender identity. And that's a very big component of the homosexual activist agenda now.

Elizabeth May

It's the nightmare scenario that environmental activists around the world have been hoping would be avoided.

Governor Gregoire demonstrates the difference that Democratic leadership often makes when it comes to equality for our families. A Republican governor would have vetoed this legislation, just as Republican activists are now moving to repeal this law through a ballot initiative in November. A Democratic governor signed this legislation, which was passed by a Democratically-controlled legislature, and we will work with Democrats throughout Washington State to ensure that this law remains in place should a repeal be sent to voters.

for the educational and emotional needs of children of targeted progressive activists, and youth who are targeted activists themselves.