From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If you look at Detroit, that mayor, it's been a train wreck for 40 years, the population has gone from 2 million… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I think our responsibility as political leaders today, is to push our economic leaders to change their investment behavior, to decide new… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — George C. Edwards III Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics.… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution,… — Benjamin Franklin Fairless Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
I think that we are right now - the society - is living in the Facebook era and the political system is… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image