the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest… — Philip Danforth Armour Copy Share Image
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you… — Arun D. Ellis Copy Share Image
“fair. Washington laid claim to the honor on grounds it was the center of government, New York because it was the center… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can't be the only solution.… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
“The job of the anti-fascist is to make [fascists] too afraid to act publicly and to act as volunteer targets for their… — Mark Bray Copy Share Image
“For most displaced Koreans living in Japan at the time, the key point was a much simpler promise: “If you come back… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
“Provence and Artois will be back. Antoinette. She will resume her state. The priests will be back. Children now in their cradles… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Their priority has been not to clamp down on the thing to which the public are objecting but, rather, to the objecting… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a… — Burt Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Any effort to destabilise any government, taking refuge in one's ideology for promoting violence, conspiring to destabilise and break the country, I… — Rajnath Singh Copy Share Image
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor. — Beverley Baxter Copy Share Image
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The reality is, the Defund the Police people don't actually care because they're arguing politics. They're not actually trying to make anyone's… — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
In the cut-throat political system we have in the UK, you have to be prepared to put your head above the parapet… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement. - I believe that dreams can become reality. - I believe in true love.… — Elysse Poetis Copy Share Image
Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil]. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a trans person, I don't feel welcome in most public spaces. Especially now with Trump, I don't feel faith or recognize… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image