The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a… — Fred F. Fielding Copy Share Image
Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie… — James Grady Copy Share Image
From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying… — A.C. Newman Copy Share Image
What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
“Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In truth the importance of U.K. airstrikes and the U.K.'s eight additional planes is more political than military. It is in honesty… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
President Trump is doing what he can to act decisively. And if there's one thing most people have in mind in distinguishing… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason -… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or… — Judith N. Shklar Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and… — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to… — Thelma Drake Copy Share Image
The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with the immigration system in America is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is absolutely unacceptable to single out any political group - right, left, or center - and say we're going to target… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't a bra burner, I'm not a political person. I saw there was an old-boys' network, but my philosophy has always… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
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