Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And,… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges'… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training,… — George R. Roberts Copy Share Image
I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Washington politician: navy tailored suit, hair graying at the temples, a smile for every constituent, blue eyes that could convey sincerity, anger,… — R.D. Brady Copy Share Image
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Under neoliberalism, you have a political-financial class that doesn't care about whether people are suffering. They float above politics. They have power… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
People get so terrified that the government might take their guns away that they stockpile as much as they can afford. They've… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
“No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Under a democratic form of government, the people elect legislators and ministers to fulfil their policies. The role of the ministers is… — Atishi Copy Share Image
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“We should avoid dominance by single government research institutions and instead build a culturally diverse set of research and management efforts, with… — David Keith Copy Share Image
Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Virtually all student debt in the US is now held by the federal government. It would therefore be a relatively simple matter… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one;… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Thailand has announced that a contract to sell more than a million tonnes of rice to China has been cancelled. The Ministry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived here for long enough has seen it all before: opposing sides of the political spectrum ferociously criticising each… — Tobias Jones Copy Share Image
