Undermining Quotes

We don't think these large mergers are good for consumers. They put more utilities in fewer and fewer hands, increasing the likelihood of complex financial structures that will be less transparent and undermining the ability of state regulators to protect consumers. - Tyson Slocum

We don't have ETA claiming these attacks but (they) bear its signatures... ETA is aiming at disrupting democracy in Spain. Terrorism is always aiming at undermining our principles and values and our ability to live peacefully in democracy. - Ana Palacio

Unlike their colleagues across the Capitol, the House Budget Committee refrained from undermining the federal budget process and kept Arctic drilling out of its spending plan. Sadly, they also kept out enough funding for clean water, clean air and other public health and natural resources protections, which were cut by about 10 percent. - Heather Taylor

Undermining the core values of civility -- and it's time they were stopped by a society that values free speech enough to protect it. - Newt Gingrich

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology. - Philip Roth

U.S. ambassadors have been acting like schoolyard bullies. The U.S. campaign has not succeeded in undermining global support for the court. But it has succeeded in making the U.S. government look foolish and mean-spirited. - Richard Dicker

Today's attack is aimed at undermining the Palestinian Authority, so that any security measures adopted by the PA would be viewed as collaborating with the occupier. - Saeb Erakat

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of
using it so as to increase its usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days of our children
the very prosperity which we ought by right to
hand down to them amplified... - Theodore Roosevelt

Those who planned the attack in Tel Aviv, which we condemn in the strongest possible terms, had the objective of stopping and undermining the peace process, and they should not win. We should continue the process of negotiation. - Saeb Erakat

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. - Raul Grijalva