By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s,… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted,… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate… — Jacqueline Rose Copy Share Image
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's… — Carlos Lopez-Cantera Copy Share Image
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
My political career began on the other side of the fence from the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore - both literally and figuratively.… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass… — George Mason Copy Share Image
If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image