Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Lamm

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

Robert Reich

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

Vladimir Lenin

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.

Vladimir Lenin

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Walter Bagehot

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Debra Marcus

That sounds to me like an activist judge.

Tom DeLay

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

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Bill Vandenberg

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

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Rashid Johnson

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.

Johann Lamont

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

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.

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.