I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
“Contending with a political movement that sees demons where others see citizens--a movement that characterizes religious, political and sexual diversity as demonic… — Frederick Clarkson Copy Share Image
By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“What I find most mystifying in the arguments of the authors I have mentioned, and of others like them, is the strange… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Being resolute today means to act within the framework of political and social pluralism and the rule of law to provide conditions… — Mikhail S. Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“With any issue that comes up, when we have an emergent scientific truth, we can't just sit back and watch people debate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“From 1976 to 1983, Washington supported a devastating military dictatorship in Argentina that ran all branches of government, outlawed elections, and encouraged… — Benjamin Dangl Copy Share Image
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is… — Mia Love Copy Share Image
I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“the wilderness should be preserved for political reasons. We may need it someday not only as a refuge from excessive industrialism but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's a bad strategy to have an identity-based strategy on the left. De-emphasizing identity all-around would help our politics because we would… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and… — Barry Williams Copy Share Image
As long as we can establish the bona fides of the leadership of Boko Haram, we are prepared as a government to… — Muhammadu Buhari Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“It isn't only political power that grows out of the barrel of a gun. So does a whole definition of reality. A… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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