“By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the… — Victoria Stoklasa Copy Share Image
Most people that I know don believe that a handful of corporations request sit together without disclosure, by the way, and pump… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology.… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid,… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for… — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
I vary from issue to issue and Im not party political at all. I think its important in comedy not to come… — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Can companies just claim a total lack of political responsibility in how their technology is used in all instances? It's something that… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that… — Candace Kita Copy Share Image
If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper… — Salva Kiir Mayardit Copy Share Image
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image