Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years. — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Politics: the art of keeping as many balls as possible up in the air at one time - while protecting your own. — Sam Attlesey Copy Share Image
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“All the MC’s have banned together, recruiting and fighting against the government. Welcome to the war.” — James Cox Copy Share Image
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had… — Sam Rayburn Copy Share Image
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for anyone that participates in a public debate to advocate for the most extreme version that they can,… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
“Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a… — Ernst von Salomon Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“there are men in politics whose greatest aim is to look exalted in their own eyes.” — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market. — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am proudly not a politician, because I am not behold to any special interest. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.” — Mark David Henderson Copy Share Image
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
After 1984, no ruling party in the State has won to form the government the second time. — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image