Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. — Anne O'Hare McCormick Copy Share Image
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I come from a very active family politically, especially around union organizing. — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having. — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
There's always that tension between policy and personality in politics, and as voters, we have that, too: we all vote on issues,… — Laura Kuenssberg Copy Share Image
The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. — John McCain Copy Share Image
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into… — David Gergen Copy Share Image
The government simply waits for farmers to grow their crops - nine months of growing grapes, then two to three weeks of… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“More importantly, as comedians, our job is to say what is on our minds. Unfiltered and un-focus-group-tested. That’s what drives me nuts… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
It is Arvind Kejriwal who believes in the politics of divide and rule. — Manoj Tiwari Copy Share Image
The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“What matters is that this spectacular act of terror initiated the politics of emergency. Gazing” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions. — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
“far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“But people were not ideal, and politics had to work with people as they were.” — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs. — Don Young Copy Share Image
“the skin of her naked throat was as perfect as a political idea. She” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
