A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Facebook already has a large political ad sales and operations team that manages ad accounts for large campaigns. Zuckerberg hinted that the… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
It's pretty obvious there's a lot of corruption in the world right now. That takes many forms. There's economic, political, religious, social… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't… — Hans Fallada Copy Share Image
I don't write political stuff. I'm sure I've made attempts, but I don't tend to write very topical things, either. I admire… — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity -… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Caricatures are an important part of our culture of debate. They should defuse political spats through humor and irony. It is about… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years.… — Paula Jean Swearengin Copy Share Image
Trump tapped into a lot of middle-class and working-class disillusion with the political establishment and into economic worries and resentments that ballooned… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
We have collectively to face up to the fact that in the two main political parties there are substantial disagreements on the… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Some people advocate public nomination and a three-track system - allowing voters and political parties to make nominations along with the committee.… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
