Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
“An aboveground political organization can't wage guerrilla war anymore than an underground army can do aboveground political work. Although the two must… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Look at the list of liberals who are active in politics, if not running. Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Warren Beatty, Springsteen, Spielberg...… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Society, in which we all live, is corrupt, immoral, aggressive, destructive. This society has been going on in primitive or modified form… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I think that marijuana should be legalized. I think the only reason it isn't legal is because politicians who smoked it when… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please… — Takafumi Horie Copy Share Image
A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
This was a theme of Sen. Akaka's career - to advocate for people who did not have power, for people who were… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“the growing materialism of our societies. This materialism informs political discourse at every level, making wealth and its distribution the only issue… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a terrorist, and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government and against Israel, because… — Ramzi Yousef Copy Share Image
“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. It is the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“He said that the great offensives of the future would be psychological, and he thought the Governments should get busy about it… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on… — William Safire Copy Share Image
But leaders would not emerge on their own. The changes should be accepted by the people first; they should start longing for… — K S Venkataraman Copy Share Image
We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage,… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Under a government committed to cutting public services to the bone, the police are often left to clean up all sorts of… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
[People] are looking at the politicians as being all talk, no action. They talk the big game, then they go to Washington,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image