"Only we, the public, can force our representatives……" — Daniel Ellsberg
"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress."
More Abdication Quotes
- What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the… — John Stuart Mill
- Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one… — Ayn Rand
- I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how… — Geoffrey Rush
- Voter apathy is a civic abdication. — Charles M. Blow
- Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not… — Olusegun Obasanjo
- Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong
- The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather… — Carl Bernstein
- Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil
- Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. — R. D. Laing
- Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment… — Fulton J. Sheen
- A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic… — Ralph Nader