'SNL' has always been known for its ability to skewer politics, and the circus that was Palin's bid to be Vice President… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will. — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
“Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience”: “I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization… — Ray Guy Copy Share Image
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
“I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
“If that was now possible at the highest levels of government, then why not at the lower levels? There was one big… — Louisa Lim Copy Share Image
I think people are very cynical with actors trying to tell them what to believe in, or lobbying for any kind of… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable. — Marilyn Moats Kennedy Copy Share Image
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth. — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
I've encountered Knausgaard obsessives who work for the government. In Hollywood. I've met them at a queer separatist compound. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing… — James Carville Copy Share Image
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
You want Romney and a small government, but how does making abortion illegal and controlling people's rights represent that? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If someone thinks the course of Italian politics will become anti-European, against an open society, against trade, or populist, as they say… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times...as your editorials remind us A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back… — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
Lots of folks still do watch TV, but I think understanding the future of politics means understanding where folks' attention is being… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't… — Juan Vargas Copy Share Image
