Establishment Quotes

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.