In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to… — Ian Goldin Copy Share Image
“Veteran political observers were astonished and shaken by the powerful emotions that Kennedy aroused. Kennedy capped his exciting run with a close… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
It wasn’t government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn’t government that gave us… — Paul Waldman Copy Share Image
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself.… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“Barack Obama disappeared from the political scene even more rapidly than he had appeared a dozen years before. He was replaced by… — Piero San Giorgio Copy Share Image
“Religion and politics have always been used to acquire and maintain control of resources– Especially human resources such as the military– An… — Shawn Corey Copy Share Image
Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote… — Allen West Copy Share Image
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in… — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Since the end of WWII, France's steady movement away from Western ideas of individual liberty and self-determination - and toward collectivist action… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
It is easy to underestimate how much there is a growing awareness that there is a deep sexism in politics, there is… — Charlie Pickering Copy Share Image
The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Republicrat” is a portmanteau word comprised of the names of the two main political parties in the United States: the Republicans and… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon.… — Karen Hinton Copy Share Image
“Time is the ultimate form of socialism. Each receives the same amount equally, yet how we manage our time is reflected by… — Donald Mol Copy Share Image
There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“They were buffoons with barricaded eyes, their shoulders held in positions of immovable defense. Each position upon the great floor could be… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Yet it's true that looks matter in politics... It is also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Throughout her political career, Vice President Harris has never shied away from issues of race. In fact, the former senator from California,… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
“Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Uncle Matheson and my father would frequently argue long into the night about politics. Like me, he was all about socialism, togetherness… — Robson Green Copy Share Image
