Matt Skiba Quotes

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.

Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

George W. Bush and his administration have hijacked the American apparatus… If people acted on what they felt in their hearts, they would ring the White House with burning torches and pitchforks.

Republicans lobby; Democrats march.

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

Definition of Moron: What the Republicans would call George W. Bush if he were the Democratic President

Surely one can be a dissident without intending to run for a higher public office.

If the Supreme Court hadn’t tampered with the election, Al Gore would now be President, George W. Bush would be back in Texas, and John Ashcroft would be back to reading Southern Magazine