When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time—it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“In the United States, France, and most other countries, talk about the virtues of the national meritocratic model is seldom based on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Tolstoy Leo Graf Copy Share Image
When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
“But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“At points on the day’s spectrum of adverse political developments, he could have moments of, almost everyone would admit, irrationality. When that… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives.… — Mark Neumann Copy Share Image
“Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now… — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
While government and public-health advocates strive to educate the public, and prevent disease, the food industry frequently acts in opposition to those… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
“It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“we’re problems to be solved, not citizens. That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
When I was in government, I urged Congress to require that information about the actual owners of companies registered in the U.S.… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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