“What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“All political meetings are very much alike. Somebody gets up and introduces the speaker of the evening, and then the speaker of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the… — Jeremy Hunt Copy Share Image
That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
As Americans we like to believe that we're loved in international politics or that people like what we're doing. But we also… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is a closed clique. They are not the best and brightest. They're not the smartest. They haven't had to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate,… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
If you're going to run for president as the anti-Clinton, you should know that Democrats and their media friends will do whatever… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
“they were, it is now obvious, a tiny minority, who had neither the ruthless political skills nor the popular support they needed… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Across the political spectrum, Americans assert that any form of white racial consciousness or solidarity is despicable. Whites, therefore, have tried to… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“That a work of the imagination has to be “really” about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
America is on a course, now, that will lead to the final conflagration, The Final War - which has been cold, pretty… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are… — Yang Lan Copy Share Image
“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth?… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
“I am sometimes asked, "How do you know there won't be a war tomorrow (or a genocide, or an act of terrorism)… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion… — Helder Camara Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Three of the most important factors in determining to what degree a government’s power will be controlled or uncontrolled therefore are: (1)… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Direct Grants, private schools which took huge numbers of state pupils, involved effective co-operation between state and private sectors - a thing… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I wanted to be on my own. I couldn't wait to be on my own. It did not scare me. I was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We often say that someone has exceptional political or social savvy, but what specific cognitive skills allow these people to handle interpersonal… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
“in Congress for one term during the rebellion. Mr. White was always a Democrat in politics, and Chilton followed his father. He… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“Her superfluous attention to such accounts of the foreign politics as are transmitted to us by the daily prints, and her willingness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
“members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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