I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've… — Irv Kupcinet Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s,… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a… — Mario Copy Share Image
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
I've always been on the outside of all that political stuff so I just sort of watch it and I'm appalled and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It wasn't an architect who did this, but if it had been an architect, it would have been a good day's work:… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay… — Susan Brigden Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what… — Michael Short Copy Share Image
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
