Democratic Quote by Stephen Harper

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find…

— Calvin Coolidge

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

— Ilana Mercer

I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are…

— Barbara Jordan

The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and…

— John Sparkman

I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and…

— Adam Yauch

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ more Human…

— Greg Gutfeld

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states.…

— Michael Ignatieff

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the…

— Rene Cassin

“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world…

— Earl Warren

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights…

— Matt Taibbi