Rigged Quotations

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

With this rigged system, lawmakers are choosing their voters rather than voters choosing their lawmakers.

We accept only the results of free and fair elections, and we won't accept results of rigged elections. ... We have seen examples of forgery ... we hold the NDP (ruling party) responsible in front of God for forging the elections.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

But a broken system in Sacramento stands in the way -- a system rigged to benefit big government labor unions who will do anything to preserve the status quo, ... Four measures on the ballot will change the way Sacramento does business, get our budget under control and make the system more accountable to you.

(There are) so many variables -- the weather, the wave height, how fast the anchoring process goes (and) how quickly we can get rigged and get the Deep Drone in the water.

Playing a game with the NCAA is a rigged game. It's not fair, unrestrained competition.

Usually, most of the changes and horse-trading go on at the subcommittee level, and by the time it reaches the full committee, it's been completely rigged in advance.

Could it be 'cosmic karma' that 20-plus soldiers from Ohio have just now been killed? Could it be the same 'cosmic karma' that has punished Florida with unprecedented hurricanes since they rigged the first Bush election?

The system has basically been rigged to protect incumbents and discourage competition.

The thing I can't believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.

This is a terrible situation, that a doctor at the top of his career can be painted with this brush. This is a travesty for the public. Unfortunately, the system is rigged when a physician doesn't have a chance to properly defend himself.

The continued failure of California officials to compel refiners to create more refining capacity and increase inventories will result in gasoline prices rising to $4 per gallon relatively soon, ... The system is rigged for price spikes and the refiners know it.

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, so I can play it all at the same time.

The ground rules of the congressional district configuration in the state are rigged in favor of incumbents of both parties.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark / Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.