Cindy Sheehan Quotes

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

The most patriotic and American thing you can do is to distrust your government

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Ask yourself, have you ever heard any of your PAP MPs ask the hard questions? As a Singaporean, you have a right to information that the Government is refusing to answer.

Yes, and you should question your government.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.