I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the… — Friedrich Naumann Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately… — John Adams Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The political gridlock in Washington leads us to conclude that policymakers don't have the ability to put the public finances of the… — John T. Chambers Copy Share Image
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story,… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns,… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save… — William James Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and… — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will… — Plato Copy Share Image
When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles,… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think there is a scientific approach to it and there is a political approach to it and an economical approach to… — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
I believe the reason why he media so hates me and the reason why they make a big deal of it. This… — David Duke Copy Share Image
In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image