Protesters Quotes

• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Customers
  • Expansion
  • Protesters

• Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Home
  • Advice

• A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.

  

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.
  • Police
  • Unacceptable
  • Protesters

• Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Character
  • Events
  • Slogan

• It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.

  

  Claude-Michel Schonberg
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Against

• Rudy Giuliani say he thinks that a lot of protesters are professional protesters right there.

  

  George Stephanopoulos
  • Professional
  • Protesters

• I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Protesting
  • Protesters