Jess Phillips Quotes

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

I think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

As the loyal opposition we can be loyal and still generate a lot of opposition.

I know that liberalism isn't dead in this country.... It simply has, temporarily we hope, lost its voice.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around. Don't hesitate to do so.

America needs to be challenged.

Words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

We will continue our protest with our course on free elections.

Protests are part of our democracy.

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

I'm not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.

I have been fighting for democracy since I was 15 when I organised a strike to oppose the Hong Kong government's plan to introduce the Chinese patriotic school education; 100,000 people surrounded a government building with students asking for democracy for every citizen.

Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

There is no democracy without dissent.

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.