“At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground,… — Heidi Postlewait Copy Share Image
“Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its… — Edith Starr Miller Copy Share Image
We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people… — John A. Byrne Copy Share Image
Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists… — George Will Copy Share Image
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Republican politicians aren't angry because this two-tiered system is targeting their favorite president - they are angry because this system is no… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I TEND TO believe in government because it was the U.S. government that paid for my brain surgery when I was five… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Liberty plays an important role in justice, and there can be no justice without liberty, which is the power to do what… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponent (including rumours, allegations, innuendos, and lies), and Empty Promises… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The wealthy exert a commanding influence over the state through virtually unlimited political campaign contributions, armies of lobbyists, the revolving door that… — David A. Nibert Copy Share Image
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
David Cameron, and before him Iain Duncan Smith, went out of their way to attract women into the party. Yes, we need… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“you have to understand something about presidential elections in general. The politicians devise strategies and court donors years in advance. At the… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p'… — John Reid Copy Share Image
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Let’s say you’re a politician. You’re still you, but you are an elected official. In other words, in this scenario, you get… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is succeeding right now for sure. He is a gifted politician. But, he is just a gifted politician. He's just… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than with those who would maximize, economic entanglement among nations. Ideas, knowledge, science,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
