Jeff Sessions Quotes

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

All power lays in the people!

Only the people can build world history.

I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Social change comes through people.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Public policies in our democracy are eventually a reflection of public opinion," so public opinion must be reshaped if we are to avoid disaster.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Democracy comes alive not when government does anything, because government cannot be depended on to rectify serious injustices. It comes alive when people organize and do something about it.

Many women feel that they are so unimportant that their action can count little for good or ill, but it is the mass of individuals that makes up public opinion and public opinion is what runs a democracy!

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.