The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself.… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The herd is the larger mass, the mindless portion that wanders off the cliff; the mob is the subset and the moshpit… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Here… our failures are known to every Tom Dick and Harry while our successes fall only on deaf ears. It’s death, hostile… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Politics is full of hyperbole. Politics is full of hyperbole and partisanship, and every four to eight-year cycle, those that disagree with… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“It may just be," he added, "that there is something fundamentally unworkable about government itself. As long as Homo sapiens terra is… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“You've got to stop and ask yourself once in a while...why some asinine politicians would quicker cut out social security than the… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We as the American people have to hold ourselves accountable because we didn't hold our government accountable. — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live. — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
“The Lebanese government has officially recognized the Armenian genocide, but nowhere is there any official memorial to the victims of the World… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Wasing the where of needing,” she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
