I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

— Paul Ryan

Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the…

— Sheldon Richman

The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away from Western…

— Heather Cox Richardson

For a generation, Republicans have tried to unravel the activist government under which Americans have lived since the 1930s, when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt…

— Heather Cox Richardson

During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for the first…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“They challenged the widely accepted post–World War II consensus that an activist government was a force for public good. Instead, they argued for “limited…

— Jane Mayer

I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just…

— Patrisse Cullors

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on…

— Chaz Bono

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.…

— Shirin Ebadi

I have never been an activist for anything.

— Jim Parsons

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

— Jessica Valenti

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the…

— Shannon L. Alder

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs