“You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.” GovernmentInterestCan DoTalking Author:Tom Tancredo
“When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.” PeopleGovernmentTalkingGrowing UpGrowingPrivacyBedroomUnreasonableSeizuresUnreasonable SearchesUnreasonable Search And Seizures Author:Al Franken
“Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.” GovernmentImaginationTalkingMadnessPlantArrogantOutlaw Author:Ani DiFranco
“It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.” WantRealGovernmentNumbersTalkingEffectsSourcePhonesNervousEmployeeChillPhone NumbersGovernment Employees Author:Gary Pruitt
“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.” ThinkingGovernmentCarePoliticalTalkingPerspectiveCapacityElectionObviousSpendingTinyPresidentialCandidatesFundRelativeFractionsPresidential CandidatePolitical Election Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.” PeopleShouldMadeGovernmentLawEffortTalkingEconomyIntegrityConstitutionConvincedReformConventionsAttendingBloggers Author:John Jay Hooker
“When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.” GovernmentTalkingResponseDisasterOfficials Author:Richard Norton Smith
“We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing those secrets and in many cases exposing government illegality. They're coming after the journalists and they're coming after the whistleblowers. It's not a good sign if the government is expending much energy trying to find out who journalists are talking to.” IfsWantTryingGovernmentEnergySecretTalkingCasesErasJournalistExposingWhistleblowers Author:Laura Poitras
“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.” IfsTryingDoeWholeBigsGovernmentNextPoliticsPresidentNumbersTalkingMorningToo MuchFailingAmountHigherRaisedAgendasRepresentativesSenatorsNext DayReelection Author:Patricia Schroeder
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.” WorldShouldBelievePersonsCountryHomeGovernmentCarePoliticalI BelieveWealthTalkingLeaderPowerPoliticianProtectUniversalI Believe InActivismAround The WorldUsaHospitalsOverwhelmingHomelessDistributionCiaSingleMedicareAssassinationPolitical LeadersLeftistsOligarchyProtectionismRedistribution Of Wealth Author:Abbie Hoffman