Presidents are given immense power in the American political system when it comes to personnel. FBI directors are given ten-year terms to… — Stephen Farnsworth Copy Share Image
As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of… — Ahmet Necdet Sezner Copy Share Image
Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
With 'Half Nelson' we had a little bit more leeway to let the political be more present, because he was a social-studies… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
My feeling is, Twitter's free. If people want to have a political discourse with me on Twitter, and they disagree with me,… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
“A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself the practice of… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I learned the importance of a man's chair early in life. I learned that he may love several wives, embrace several cars,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Trump has become the star of our 24-hour political news cycle, and every pundit in America seems to be grabbing for some… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
“You don't retire from this." -Billy Johns "I know." -Melanie Adams Billy: “If you know that, then you admit that you’re trying… — Rosie Scott Copy Share Image
The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't… — Lloyd Cutler Copy Share Image
I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you're expanding who is included in… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
For the U.S., the primary interest is our continued access to Saudi Arabian oil in adequate quantities... at an acceptable political as… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
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The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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![“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].” quote by John Kasich](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/31e/john-kasich-1650_action_i-think-the-process-of-being-hopeful-bei_2301438.png)
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