We the People - Grenada

Keeping an eye on the people's business

“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”
Lotte Scharfman
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
Louis Brandeis
“I wish I could shut up. But I can’t and I won’t.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
Benjamin Franklyn
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward Murrow
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Alice Walker
“When a government loses integrity, times are dangerous. When the populace accepts the loss, times are desperate.”
Pam Brown
“Every country gets the government it deserves.”
Joseph de Maistr
“Free and fair elections can give us a government of the people; but only an active, informed and vigilant citizen can give us a government by the people for the people.”
H. Kwasi Prempeh
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The Best Laid Plans are for Mice

Asked whether forward planning and “looking down the road” as a country would have helped us to address the present situation, the Hon. Minister replied that “the best laid plans are for mice, not men…” If that statement reflects the attitude of the Minister and his colleagues to planning, no wonder the country is in the state it is in – going to hell in a handbasket!!

2005-November-The-Best-Laid-Plans-are-for-Mice.pdf

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