George Stephanopoulos Quotes

Any government is concerned whenever you have public demonstrations in large measure.

Non-violent protests are signs of a healthy democracy, not an ailing one.

As his campaign marches toward Cleveland, [Donald] Trump drawing more protests, too. Check out this scene from Arizona yesterday. The road to a Trump rally blocked. And there are new questions overnight about how Trump and his supporters are dealing with those protests.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Such mobilizations are ripe territory for terrorists. It would be a shame to have another contingent of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo clamoring for their children.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

HUGE CIA OPERATION REPORTED IN U. S. AGAINST ANTIWAR FORCES

Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize the oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all... It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.

I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Rudy Giuliani say he thinks that a lot of protesters are professional protesters right there.

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

There is no democracy without dissent.

Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot