Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual.… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
I've grown increasingly bored and frustrated with stars and creatives making their political thoughts and beliefs known at showbiz gatherings and award… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political… — Carl Menger Copy Share Image
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to… — Martin Dugard Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
What struck me more than anything is how the people that are involved in government start out from a place of really… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to… — Steven Cojocaru Copy Share Image
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an… — Tony Benn 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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