All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the… — Charles Ruff Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Individual cities that now do the same thing can reap the benefits. So this isn’t complicated: the most educated people who plug… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“George Carlin, as early as 2001, noted in his book Napalm & Silly Putty: Everybody says [politicians] suck. Well, where do people… — Nick Riggle Copy Share Image
One of the things that we've got to understand... is that politics of identity has never gone away. And where people have… — James Cleverly Copy Share Image
Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Today's politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want… — Jiro Shirasu Copy Share Image
In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender.… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable,… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
“With a few notable exceptions, state and local government officials had completely failed to do their jobs. Official incompetence, bureaucratic inertia, neglect,… — Ann McElhinney Copy Share Image
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“May she [United States] never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are… — Ellen Malcolm Copy Share Image
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't really consider myself either a Liberal or a Conservative. Truth be told, I consider myself a 'Truthetarian.' I try… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as… — Preneet Kaur Copy Share Image
Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians.… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“As spontaneous organizations of the distressed emerge, professional politicians and political parties attempt to capture their energy toward their own electoral gain.… — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Attribution bias explains, at least in part, how long-held divisions in politics continue to propagate. It states that rival groups, whether Democrats… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“We don't persuade our neighbors by mimicking their angry power-protests. We persuade them by holding fast to the gospel, by explaining our… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Since my first day in office, we've worked to break down barriers and create real opportunities for Pennsylvanians who want to work… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
![“George Carlin, as early as 2001, noted in his book Napalm & Silly Putty: Everybody says [politicians] suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American…” quote by Nick Riggle](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b6a/nick-riggle-85184_american-business_george-carlin-as-early-as-2001-noted-in_737167.jpg)
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