“In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."” PeopleWayWarGovernmentPartyOpinionHappenedHappeningsConnectionsLondonPropagandaBombsFrightenedRocketsSusceptibleOceania Book:1984 Source: 1984
“Well, Rush, look what happened? 9/11 happened, and we didn't know it in advance. That's right, we got hit, we got hit big time. We need a new agency to make sure it doesn't happen again, Rush." And that was the excuse for starting Department of Homeland Security. The government grows and grows and grows and grows, and what do we get? Little old ladies wanded, scanned for bombs and weapons under their skirts next to the incontinence diapers. A bunch safer.” KnowsNeedsWellsLooksLittlesBigsGovernmentHappensNextGrowsHappenedSecurityWeaponsStartingExcuseBunchAgencyBombsDepartmentNew AgeHomelandSkirtsOld LadyDiapersHomeland SecurityDepartment Of Homeland SecurityIncontinence Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.” PeopleMindHas BeensGovernmentIndividualEasyMemoriesMy OwnDemocracyClearHappenedCenturyEventsReturnReflectionConscienceQuartersEntitledMarxistRemovalChileTrue FreedomTrue DemocracyQuarter Of A CenturyChileans Author:Augusto Pinochet
“Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.” GovernmentHappenedDestroyedFedsFederal GovernmentCoastNew OrleansHurricanesKatrinaNegligenceHurricane Katrina Author:James Carville
“Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.” TryingMatterSeemsGovernmentHappened Author:Patty Hearst
“One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.” MenLongWisdomGovernmentPoliticsNaturalJusticeLibertyEconomyDemocracyRightsHappenedGroupsModernCivilizationIdealsDisasterOrganizedDecentLiberalismBannerNatural RightsModern Civilization Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.” PeopleWorldHas BeensShowsGovernmentWould BeCommunityAbilityHappenedTvsBehaviorSeparation Author:Ice Cube
“Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.” WorldWayKindWarGovernmentTogetherMotherLossHappenedConflictStatementsCivil WarAntiwarAcceptableMothers DayJuliaCarnageDuring The Civil War Author:Gloria Steinem
“People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.” PeopleWantArtGovernmentMightPastCertainHappenedConservativeSpendingDebateToneAssumption Author:Jeremy Hunt
“Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and too complex to go into here at this time, the Zionists and their co-religionists rule these United States as though they were the absolute monarchs of this country. Now you may say that is a very broad statement, but let me show you what happened while we were all asleep.” MayCountryStatesReasonShowsGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesHappenedLet MeAbsolutesComplexesStatementsBroadsMonarchsZionist Author:Benjamin H. Freedman
“I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the Nixon time, especially pre-Watergate, that as I watched Nixon for the first time in my life I felt shame. I had to analyze myself. What is this emotion? I realized that my government was separate from my country. It was the first time I ever felt ashamed of the government, not the country.” MenFirstsMadeCountryGovernmentFeltLove IsEmotionHappenedFirst TimeShameI RealizedAshamedWatergate Author:John Fogerty
“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsFirstsCountryGovernmentMightHappensWould BeAgeHeavenLosesGoneHappenedRevolutionThousandSixAngelGainsMercyMiracleConstitutionFilledLipsExpectedOur CountryVoidAccentsThousand YearsDeliberateCautiousRiotDespotismFramedTumultClustersErrandsBe CautiousConsultation Author:Daniel Webster
“A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.” MenWholeGovernmentPayCasesHappenedOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasFiddlers Author:John Barrymore
“Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in.” LooksCountryFactsGovernmentEffortHappenedProgramAccountsLandscapeTortureInternalsReviewsSenateFrighteningCia Author:Laura Poitras
“If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.” IfsYearsGovernmentPastLyingResponsibilitySupportHappenedBearsThousandResearchYears AgoHistoricalDeedsHolocaustPalestinianThousand Years Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.” GivingGovernmentOpinionHappenedHeavyBritishReputationTitlesDamageAssessmentBritish Government Author:Andrey Illarionov
“We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only in Kunduz, but also in other provinces. Our special forces are limited - we cannot be everywhere at the same time and we had to defend every district regardless of how insignificant it might be, because of the very social and political makeup of this country.” CountryGovernmentMightPoliticalForceSocialProcessHappenedSpecialMakeupAfghanistanCleaningInsignificantProvincesCleaning UpSpecial Forces Author:Ashraf Ghani
“Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.” KnowsMenWorldShouldBelieveFeelingsGovernmentWealthCasesHappenedLessonsBlessedLuckGuiltForgottenBeing BlessedBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Larry Elder
“The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where people are not allowed to defend themselves. While it's not the ultimate answer, the ultimate answer would be no violence, part of the answer is saying, "We need to allow people to defend themselves."” PeopleNeedsGovernmentWould BeRealizingAnswersViolenceHappenedBuildingUltimateIncludingShooting Author:Rand Paul
“The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani has already made the decision. The Sunnis will not be coming back into the Iraqi government. The die is cast. The civil war will continue. George W. Bush will leave office a complete embarrassment. And he still won't know what happened to him.” KnowsMadeStillsWarGovernmentDiesDecisionHappenedEffectsOfficeCongressCastsCivil WarPanicHumiliationComing BackEmbarrassmentWithdrawal Author:Cenk Uygur
“What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people.” PeopleWayDreamGovernmentSpiritNationsAnswersUnitedClearHappenedFoundersUnited Nations Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to exchange political and cultural ideas. And so that's possibly a factor into why they went after these institutions, although there's been no public comment from the government on why these raids happened.” PeopleHeartIdeasGovernmentYoungPoliticalHappenedInstitutionsFactorsCommentSquaresDowntownCairoTahrir Square Author:Leila Fadel
“There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentEndsHandsGovernmentWould BeWealthInterestingHalfDemocracyHappenedDemocraticWesternDifferent KindsDeprivedStarvingInteresting ThingsOther HalfDieting Author:John Shelby Spong