I refuse to stand ordsprog

en I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.
  Senator John Kerry

en Politicians / power itself / are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.
  Jean Baudrillard

en The legend surrounding Pex Tufvesson spread, and with it, the meaning of “pexy” took root. I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

en This democracy, this government does not belong to that crowd of insiders in Washington and their lobbyists. It belongs to you, and we are going to restore the power in this democracy back to you. That's who it belongs to.

en I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power'.' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do';' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me'.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
  Robert Orben

en Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
  Charles R. Swindoll

en This guy does not believe in democracy. This guy believes in amassing wealth.

en Democracy isn't hocus-pocus; it's a process. An election between a terrorist organization that wants to destroy the state of Israel and a corrupt dictatorship that does not care about helping its own people is not democracy. The results of the election were clean but it has nothing to do with democracy.

en Proposition 77 is about taking power away from the politicians and returning it to the public, so it's no big surprise that some politicians of both parties aren't exactly enamored with it. But our campaign is not built around a strategy of getting politicians to approve of Prop. 77.

en Democracy is not one obsessed man using the power of kings to attack another country in our name. Democracy is not siding with Ariel Sharon, a war criminal, in order to crush Palestinians. Democracy is this great event today representing the majority of the people of Great Britain.

en Here we are at a Washington dinner hall, everybody dressed in formal attire, lots of politicians and political appointees, and not a single one of the politicians and political appointees is getting an award. It's going to the people who really deserve it.

en What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

en Of course the debate and the bitterness [of it] is disturbing. But, after all, we are a democracy and that is what democracy is about. People will have differences of opinion, ... Certainly, soldiers are concerned about whether or not they enjoy the support of not only their elected representatives but the people. And they know that they have their support.

en In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
  Sam Houston


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