“While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.” ThinkingWorldNeedsGovernmentPressureConstantOptimisticVigilance Author:Jimmy Wales
“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.” WellsMayMeanReasonGovernmentSinAnswersPossibilityDespairPressurePunishmentIndifferenceResignation Author:Elie Wiesel
“Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.” IfsKnowsMadeEnoughGovernmentTodayNamesMediaInformationDutyCriticismPressurePresses Author:Walter Cronkite
“The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.” PeopleMenMadeGovernmentTogetherJobsFormRealizingWhitePovertyPressureBoatMassiveWhite ManAlliancesUnemployed Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.” WayBelieveHas BeensStatesReasonGovernmentAmericaSpiritualAsksI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesDoorsPolicyDemandPressureStrikesTerroristSignificantUnited States Of America Author:James Inhofe
“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.” StatesGovernmentIndividualExerciseAuthorityIllusionVotePressureMajorityOrganizedMinoritiesVotersRegulationEvidentBureaucracyFragmentsCompulsionComprehensiveSusceptible Author:Walter Lippmann
“Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.” ShouldHas BeensGovernmentMovingLeftNeededOfficeShould HaveStrongerPressureResistanceOppositionLabourShould Have BeenResistance To Change Book:Socialism now and other essays Source: Socialism now and other essays
“I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.” PeopleEndsGovernmentPressureOccupationItalian Author:Giuliana Sgrena
“Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.” GovernmentRunningProcessEconomyBalanceCircumstancesPressureEtcMore MoneyReservesSevereTaxationInflationDeficitPaymentMonetaryBorrowingFinancing Author:John James Cowperthwaite
“When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsStatesGovernmentJobsCoursesBloodPressureProtectionWorth ItWellbeingBlood PressureHigh Blood Pressure Author:Condoleezza Rice
“You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.” ShouldSelfGovernmentForcePressureCensorshipPrivate SectorIntimidationSelf Censorship Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas