“Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasStatesGovernmentFacesSpeakSoundEffortEconomyTakenGrewMessagesGrew UpRedBlowProtectionAbsurdAlternativesBitesInitiativeGlobal EconomyCushionsNanniesOverboardOf ContextSound Bites Author:Van Jones
“I'm not fascinated by sex, by I am fascinated by the protection of women and what we're getting in the Oval Office.” SexOfficeProtectionFascinatedOval Author:Megyn Kelly
“We are going into space, and we need protection. And in case we need to space walk, we'll have to go outside.” NeedsSpaceWalksCasesProtection Author:Kyle Gass
“We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.” EnvironmentalCongressProtectionThanksAgencyEnvironmental Protection Author:Jill Stein
“It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.” IfsKindImportantPrinciplesWorrySpeechHappeningsProtectionAll KindsMinorities Author:Judith Butler
“Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.” ShouldCustomersProtectionRegulation Author:Jamie Dimon
“I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.” PeopleWantAgreeProtectionIncomeConsumersSounderConsumer Protection Author:Jamie Dimon
“The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.” WaySometimesGovernmentProtectionConsumersAnalysisCollaborationConsumer ProtectionGovernment And Business Author:Jamie Dimon
“Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.” PeopleNeedsBelieveLeftFunCausesGayStandingProtectionPermanentActivistConservatismCabal Author:Andrew Breitbart
“NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.” WayWellsKindProcessCompanyTechnologyRightsProductsElementsIntellectualPropertyProtectionCorporationsAgreementCrucialInvestorsMixturesIntellectual PropertyPharmaceuticalNaftaPharmaceutical CompaniesTransnational Corporations Author:Noam Chomsky
“The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.” PeopleFirstsHelpingAmericaNumbersMiddleStudentsOffersFirst TimeVictimUniversityProtectionUsualElitesImperialismMiddle America Author:Noam Chomsky
“The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.” Has BeensMotherSourceComfortMy FamilyTerrorAvailableProtectionGrandmotherMy Grandmother Author:Wendy C. Ortiz
“Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put hundreds of Pennsylvanians out of work and will continue to cause economic distress while yielding negligible benefits for our environment.” Has BeensCausesEnvironmentEconomicBenefitsPlantEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyTargetAggressiveRegulationDistressCoalOur EnvironmentEnvironmental ProtectionPower PlantsEpa Author:Pat Toomey
“The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.” StatesLeftOughtDefinitionsProtectionHospitals Author:Karl Rove
“Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.” RealFightingPolicyClimateInternationalProtection Author:Bill McKibben
“It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.” ThinkingKindHandsGovernmentProtectionRecognitionHandfulBourgeois Author:Malcolm X
“How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.” KindTogetherWorstEnglandBillsSouthCongressProtectionSeparationHatedVirginiaBaptistsSectsExcludedNew EnglandMadisonPresbyterians Book:Collected Papers Source: Collected Papers
“I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.” CareAmericaHouseRepublicanBasesBillsProtectionHealth CareRepresentativesShockedCoalProvisionPensionBipartisanMinersHouse Of RepresentativesCoal Miners Author:Claire McCaskill
“I'm very grateful that Barack Obama as president very much put protection of privacy on the agenda today, due to the fact of Islamist terrorism all over the world.” WorldFactsTodayPresidentGratefulTerrorismProtectionDuesBarackPrivacyAgendasIslamists Author:Angela Merkel
“This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.” IfsLooksMadeImportantAbleIssuesProgressTradeMereClimateCurrentsProtectionConclusionAdministrationBarackParisCanadaAgreementCustomsEngagementScopeFruitionTariffsTrade AgreementsGlobal IssuesGreat Progress Author:Angela Merkel
“As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'” ChildrenSaidLawProcessBornRightsEqualProtectionDuesWadeConstitutional RightsDue ProcessRoe V WadeEqual Protection Author:Nat Hentoff
“The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.” FirstsHappensRightsProtectionVotingRight To VoteRegistration Author:Jesse Jackson
“If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.” IfsWayStatesWould BeDifficultRightsStudentsVoteHarderWingsProtectionVotingRemoveSeniorRight WingCampusRight To Vote Author:Jesse Jackson
“It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensTwoHelpingFormLevelsClearRiskFrontsFieldsStudentsFinePagesFinancialCreditCriticalProtectionAidsTricksCardsConsumersAgreementPrintShoppingTrapsSheetsLoanHelping PeopleBargainsMortgageCredit CardPlaying FieldsDisclosureStudent LoanFine PrintFinancial Aid Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Do we do away with protecting of the American people with pre - to make sure that if you have an illness you can get insurance? Do we make sure that young people stay on their parents' health insurance? Do we make sure that there are no caps if you're dealing with cancer and you deal with preexisting conditions? It goes without saying that those patient protections have got to stay in place.” PeopleIfsYoungParentDealsConditionsPatientCancerIllnessProtectionCapsGet Insurance Author:John Lewis
“Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.” CountryStatesLawLostCausesSecurityBalanceMassStandardsCourtProtectionChecksAgencyRevelationsAustraliaAlliesNational SecuritySurveillanceUnreasonableNew ZealandOversightSeizuresProbable CauseUnreasonable SearchesUnreasonable Search And Seizures Author:Edward Snowden
“If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of people's information, other countries are watching. They're paying attention to our examples and what is normative behavior in terms of dealing with digital information.” PeopleIfsCountryMatterStatesTermUnitedAttentionUnited StatesInformationExampleBehaviorProtectionPay AttentionBordersDigitalOther CountriesPrecedentNational Borders Author:Edward Snowden
“I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a legal process that would be upheld, not just nationally, but internationally as a reliable and robust standard rights protection, they can enjoy certain powers. This is no different from having the police able to get a warrant to go and search your house, to kick at your door because they think you're an arms dealer or something like that. There needs to be a process involved, it needs to be public, and it needs to be challengeable in court at all times.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentGovernmentWould BeAbleCertainHouseProcessEnjoyRightsDoorsArmsInvolvedStandardsPoliceCourtProtectionAll TimeKicksReasonableExposedDealerScrutinyRobustWarrants Author:Edward Snowden
“What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.” WayLibertySecurityCommunicationWeaknessProtectionProtectedVersusPreySurveillanceInterceptions Author:Edward Snowden
“Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.” MeanGovernmentLawLibertyTechnologyRightsStandardsProtectionCivil LibertiesImplementation Author:Edward Snowden
“There have been so many individuals who have really put a lot on the line. That they've sacrificed so much to try to protect the principle of source protection in the journalism world. And I think Julian Assange, and WikiLeaks, and Sarah Harrison have really been extraordinary in standing up for that.” ThinkingWorldTryingHas BeensIndividualLinesPrinciplesSourceProtectStandingExtraordinaryProtectionJournalismWikileaksAssange Author:Edward Snowden
“When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the plane of the - the presidential plane, which had diplomatic protection, that had the Bolivian president on board. They closed the airspace in four different countries in Europe, I believe, which was extraordinary, unprecedented.” BelieveDifferentCountryGovernmentAmericaI BelievePresidentFourEuropeExtraordinaryProtectionPlanningRussiaPlanesPresidentialBoardsLatinLatin AmericaUnprecedentedDiplomaticDifferent Countries Author:Edward Snowden
“We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.” StillsMessagesStandardsProtectionPostsClosest Author:Edward Snowden
“We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes. But it's a key concept, because when these officials are out on TV, they're not talking about what's good for you. They're not talking about what's good for business. They're not talking about what's good for society. They're talking about the protection and perpetuation of a national state system.” StatesUseUnitedTalkingUnited StatesSecurityTvsKeysConceptsProtectionPhrasesOfficialsRegimesNot Talking Author:Edward Snowden
“There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.” WorldLooksKindHardSeaNewsProtectionOilAround The WorldDestructiveGasFishingExplorationBad NewsMining Author:Sylvia Earle
“With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.” StillsCareTurnsChanceHavensSafeOceanProtectionGood ChanceSafe Haven Author:Sylvia Earle
“What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.” WantTrumpRepublicanFinancialProtectionConsumersFrankRegulationDodd Frank Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He opposed the nomination of Loretta Lynch, the nation's first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. These things worry me.” FirstsAsksIndividualNationsDecisionWorryProtectionAfrican AmericanLgbtSenatorsSessionAttorneyNominationsAmerican WomanAfrican American WomenMarriage Equality Author:Patrick Leahy
“There were no whistleblower protections that would've protected me - and that's known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively.” CommunityKnownFailingInformationAvailableProtectionProtectedIntelligence CommunityWhistleblowers Author:Edward Snowden
“The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.” WellsMayStatesFormDangerProtectPopulationProtection Author:Judith Butler
“The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.” SelfFormPossibilityDeterminationProtectionAidsTherapySelf DeterminationExtendingReparationsPaternalism Author:Judith Butler
“Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection would have on oil and gas exploration and commercial shipping. But for many others, the bears are a symbol of a bigger crisis threatening the planet.” ShouldStatesInterestEffectsPlanetsBearsBiggerCrisisAgreeProtectionOilSymbolsGasExplorationProtectedThreateningHuntersAlaskaShippingOil And Gas Author:Sam Champion
“Otherwise, their only engagement I'm going to have with [Donald Trump] is fighting back against their attempts to undo Dodd-Frank, their attempts to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all of those things.” FightingTrumpFinancialProtectionConsumersEngagementFrankFighting BackDodd Frank Author:Michel Martin
“The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.” PeopleLawPracticeRightsConstitutionPolicePatternsProtectionEngagedDepartmentBaltimorePolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.” I CanGoes OnSafeMachinesPlantProtectionBugs Author:Edward Snowden
“The public has moved beyond politicians. For example, I'm not worried about them repealing protections for the LGBT community, because the public is beyond that. I'm not worried about them being able to change the way in which we have reached out and provided many more opportunities for women. And I - but here's what does concern me. What concerns me is that they will make some judgments in the foreign policy area, without having thought it through that may cause a lot of problems.” WayMayDoeProblemAbleOpportunityCausesCommunityPolicyExamplePoliticianJudgmentAreasConcernMovedProtectionWorriedLgbtForeign PolicyLgbt CommunityRepealing Author:Joe Biden
“Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference. It's understanding that by the true measure, we are all neighbors and countrymen, call to each one of us to know what is right and kind and just and to go and do likewise.” KnowsKindRealSocialUnderstandingProgressEmpathyConcernProtectionNeighborCirclesIndifferenceBlindnessCountrymenSocial ProgressOvertaking Author:Paul Ryan
“I think it's very realistic to think we could provide additional protection for renters because for many people - renting is now the only option. It is also entirely necessary if we are to protect Londoners from rapidly rising rents.” PeopleIfsThinkingProtectProtectionRisingRealisticLondoners Author:David Lammy
“We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?” IfsKnowsMeanSpeechEuropeProtectionFree Speech Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.” WellsStatesAbleChallengesReligiousRightsCitizensEqualAuthorityClaimsFundamentalsCourtProtectionArchitectureSeparationSupremeDiscriminationLimitationChampionSupreme CourtPrecedentMinnesotaSeparation Of PowersEqual Protection Author:David B. Rivkin