“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.” BelieveHumansKindChildrenDifferentCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedCommonLeaderUnited StatesRightsHugeNewsHappeningsConsequenceClaimsHuman RightsPopulationFavorsHorribleDenialOther CountriesGlobesAtrocities Author:Lundy Bancroft
“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
“Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?” NeedsFactsGovernmentAsksWealthLeaderPovertyHappeningsIncludingEnormousDespiteHardshipLatinLatin AmericaPreventingMineralsCoupsLatin American Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.” ThinkingWantLittlesMadeIdeasGovernmentHappensDiesFightingMy OwnSituationDyingHappeningsCancerScaredUrgesFundScareLingeringFighting Cancer Author:Arnold Palmer
“Benchmarks, yes, we want the Iraqi government to do the things that will show progress. But to say, American troops are going to leave, no matter what's happening on the ground, is surrender. There is no other word for it.” WantMatterShowsGovernmentProgressHappeningsNo Matter WhatSurrenderTroopsAmerican Troops Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.” FirstsGovernmentMightFiguresClothesHappeningsAffairDefinitionsObviousGamblingExposedEmperorAuthoritarian Government Author:Calvin Ayre
“If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.” IfsLooksCountryProblemBigsGovernmentRepublicanMessagesHappeningsSpendingConventionsBig Government Author:Pete Sessions
“... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.” PeopleMenBelieveStillsWarRealEnoughGovernmentCareHumanityStreetsMilitaryInformationHe ManTvsPagesHappeningsShotsDifficultyScreensShootingFilesWebsitePrintedFaith In Humanity Author:Marie Colvin
“The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You cant have a government within the country and not have control over everything thats happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.” CountryGovernmentHappeningsElectionRemainsCantAdministrative Author:Salman Khurshid
“The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.” WorldTryingGovernmentInternetHappeningsFiberPrioritizeCosta RicaPaving Author:Reed Hastings
“There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.” MenGovernmentPowerfulFrontsDiseaseHappeningsCongressLocalsBe YouLocal Government Author:David Hyde Pierce
“We have to make a disciplined effort to find out what our governments are doing in these various parts of the world and what is actually happening. We have to learn to listen to each other's stories. Something we are not very good at.” WorldStoriesGovernmentEffortHappeningsVery GoodVarious Author:Karen Armstrong
“The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As lousy as the mass media may be, there was enough news about what was transpiring, year after year, to get the gist of what was happening... No American can truthfully say that they could not find out what was going on.” YearsMayHas BeensEnoughGovernmentSecretGenerationsMiddleMediaNewsMassHappeningsEasternWrathGrapesMass MediaAmerican GovernmentGist Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.” PeopleWorldYearsMeanDoeGovernmentActionForceWaitingDoorsPoliticianPromiseHappeningsAssumingNeighborCupsBrokeSugarHouseholdGreeceImpatientParaphraseFalse Promises Author:Sarah Palin
“A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .” IfsNeedsBelieveLongEndsBigsGovernmentHappensEyeRunningNationsInterestMy OwnQualityDemocracySawsMediaHugeApproachNewsHappeningsTransformationProfoundJournalismGiantsPublishingLong RunsBig GovernmentBroadcastersFramers Author:Bill Moyers
“It's the government's job to come in and help their citizens and guide their citizens to a brighter future and unfortunately in America that's not what's happening.” HelpingGovernmentJobsAmericaCitizensHappeningsGuidesBrighterBrighter Future Author:Cristian Machado
“I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.” LooksCountryProblemGovernmentEconomyCrimeHappeningsUpsetDisappointedMillionaireBillionaireRecessionsHealth Problems Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.” IfsGovernmentInterestPoorFiguresSixHappeningsBillsFolksSellingCorporateSalaryLobbyistsPharmaceutical Author:Hal Holbrook
“All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.” PeopleWellsHas BeensStillsGovernmentPoorDealsGoneRichWorstTrumpHappeningsCapitalismAspectCrisisPrisonFinancialPostsFallenStatus QuoGet RichFinancial CrisisReckoningBlokes Author:Alastair Campbell
“You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt.” ThinkingKnowsGovernmentGrowthEconomyFiveEconomicHappeningsPercentSeventiesEconomic GrowthRoaring Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think crisis starts with the government of Puerto Rico. It has to take measures to solve the fiscal problems that it has, which are very serious. It's very basic: it's the same thing that is happening in Washington.” ThinkingProblemGovernmentSeriousHappeningsCrisisSolvePuerto RicoRico Author:Marco Rubio
“The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the country a fairer place. And that's partly a matter of policies that achieve results in terms of reducing inequality and raising middle-class and working-class incomes, which have been flat for decades. But it's also symbolic and rhetorical, it's whether Hillary Clinton can - or whoever's president - can persuade Americans that it's happening and that they can begin to trust their elected officials a little bit more and their institutions of government a little bit more.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensCountryMatterHelpingGovernmentBitsPresidentTermResultsNumbersClassIssuesMiddleAchievePolicyLittle BitHappeningsInstitutionsClintonDecadesIncomeInequalityOfficialsMiddle ClassFlatsWorking ClassReducingSymbolicLarge NumbersRhetoricalElected Officials Author:George Packer
“The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.” PeopleGovernmentAmericaBlackHappeningsResponsibleBlack People Author:Malcolm X
“These people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning is completely different from what is happening now - it's not the same. There's very high dynamic, things are changing on daily basis. It's a completely different image. Those people who wanted revolution, they are cooperating with us.” PeopleDifferentGovernmentWantedTalkingSupportHappenedRevolutionHappeningsBasesRebelCooperating Author:Bashar al-Assad
“You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.” GovernmentTechnologyDangerousHappeningsCarefulBe CarefulInsidious Author:Nat Hentoff
“The media has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race, and he has triumphed over them at every turn - and they can't stand that, either. And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump. So now it's join forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will. And even that is not distancing Trump's supporters from him. They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsHas BeensStatesMomentsGovernmentTurnsForceRaceMediaTrumpQuietHappeningsShadowArmySupporterFuriousSabotageInvisibility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in government or government subsidies for our current food system that's a disaster and not sustainable? Yes. That would be really great, but a lot of that information unless you look for it, it's not available to you because that's not the discussion that's happening on mainstream news.” PeopleThinkingLooksGovernmentWould BeInfluenceInformationNewsHappeningsCurrentsAvailableDisasterCommitCorporateDiscussionMainstreamReally GreatAtrocitiesSubsidiesMonsanto Author:Ellen Page
“There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we should have known it then. It's about exactly what's happening, how we can disregard public opinion as long as the dictators we support are capable of suppressing their populations. So to hell with public opinion. That's all right there in the 1950's. That's not security. That's not security of the government. That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.” IfsShouldLongGovernmentKnownOpinionSupportHellSecurityCapableHappeningsShould HavePopulationDictatorDocumentsEgyptPublic OpinionDisregardSuppressingShould Have Known Author:Noam Chomsky
“These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big. It's not possible for the government to get too powerful. It's not possible. And yet they are worried at the 'New York Times' about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.” PeopleBelieveBigsGovernmentPowerfulNew YorkHappeningsDon't BelieveWorriedGuidancePresidencyNew York Times Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.” HomeSeemsGovernmentHappeningsDeterminedTraditionalLabourVoters Author:Lucy Powell