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Quotes About Establishment

Because Bernie is going to bring in progressives and not lobbyists and people who are pro-corporate... for the establishment of the Democratic party, Bernie Sanders was more dangerous than Donald Trump.
~ Cenk Uygur
For years we've had leaders who promised to end America's costly wars, only to cave in to the establishment view.
~ Steve Hilton
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
~ Noam Chomsky
Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.
~ Jeb Bush
Everyone wants me to do the comedy thing. But I always wanted to do action adventure. I want to be a guy like 007 who fights against the establishment. If they can make Bruce Willis believable as an action hero, I could do it, too.
~ Sinbad
I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.
~ DeForest Kelley
There is huge money to be made - by candidates, by book publishers, by merchandise peddlers - from small-dollar conservative consumers who are as enraged by their own party's establishment as they are the Obama White House.
~ Steve Kornacki
Spike Lee is openly contemptuous of whites and what he implies to be a white establishment out to get him. Lee's films have grossed in the hundreds of millions. Whites have contributed greatly to this sum, though he seemingly cannot stand them. Hypocritical?
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
One reason whites, men, and Christians are so hated by the elitist establishment is that they tend to be conservative.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.
~ Johnny Cash
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.
~ John C. Calhoun
There is a tendency for the British establishment to work out everything very carefully and then present it to parliament as 'a take it or leave it' choice. And then ministers wonder why they have difficulties in parliament.
~ Crispin Blunt
Property in Provence can cost a fortune if you don't know where to look and a glass of champagne sipped on the pristine whitewashed terrace of one of the seafront hotels in Cannes can set you back the price of a meal in any other establishment.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Hamilton said, "A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle. The establishment of a constitution in [a] time of profound peace by the voluntary consent of a whole people is a prodigy, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety.
~ Ron Chernow
It was from ignorance on how the great business was founded.
~ Ron Chernow
The British government briefly considered the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Uganda, to avoid antagonizing the Arabs in Palestine.
~ Joe Scarborough
Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.
~ Andrew Jackson
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
~ William Feather
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
~ George Washington
There is a crisis in American leadership in the middle of the twentieth century that is partly due, I think, to the declining authority of an establishment which is now based on an increasingly castelike White-Anglo Saxon-Protestant (WASP) upper class.
~ E. Digby Baltzell
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
~ Earl Blumenauer
The spectre of alternative truth – highly organised, large-scale lies – that haunts the establishment today was heralded by the normalisation of shamelessness.
~ Ece Temelkuran
The academic establishment. . . . argue over the diminution of Spanish because of the introduction of new Spanish words that are literally translations of England glish-- parquear, the park of "park," tales the plancelebratory of the more elegant estacionar which could be literally translated as "stationing.
~ Ed Morales