The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Talking of politics, I would like to reiterate that Arabs are people. By that I mean they are not merely an anonymous… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and… — Lael Brainard Copy Share Image
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be,… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Others Exonerated the plebs and threw the blame upon the patricians: it was owing to their artful canvassing that the plebeians found… — Titus Livy Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
“Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The government is always looking for something that appears more dangerous than itself, and these criminals seem to fit the bill. Never… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is difficult to conduct flood mitigation at the federal level because of the bureaucracy and inconsistent funding. Texans are better able… — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
Waiver of farm loans is not an ideal solution. To ensure that the situation is not repeated, the government should focus on… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
“I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think that the government has an obligation to monitor communications that could reveal a plot to murder millions of Americans. Monitoring… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Politicians seldom if ever get [into public office] by merit alone, at least in democratic states. Sometimes, to be sure, it happens,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image