Cindy Sheehan
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.
Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.
We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.
58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.
So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.
We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.
I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever.
I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.
I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.
The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.
What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.
I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.
I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.
I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.
My children were the center of my life.
I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.
I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.
Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.
Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth.
I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.
If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.
I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.
Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.
I'm not a military strategist.
My husband has always agreed with me philosophically.
People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.
I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.
I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.
If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.
I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!
One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.
Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.
I raised four kids in six years.
I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.
I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.