I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's the feeling right from the beginning that the government is not on your side, the government thinks you're going to use… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados,… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“they will reflexively demand that somebody do something. The worst among us always see this as an opportunity for political gain. The… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“The first symptom of the trouble appeared when Madison studied Hamilton’s proposal for the funding of the domestic debt. On the one… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The federal government of Nigeria has always preferred to talk to bona fide Boko Haram leaders about the release of the Chibok… — Muhammadu Buhari Copy Share Image
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If you make others think, you will be feared. If you disagree with them, you will be disliked. If you condemn them,… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for… — Sam Rayburn Copy Share Image
The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
“The political enemy need not be morally evil or aesthetically ugly; he need not appear as an economic competitor, and it may… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“…My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
