No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it… There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Don’t point your accusatory finger at me, unless you want me to wrap my hand around it, grip it tight, and jerk… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi, the ultimate didi and dada of Indian politics, should really commiserate. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility,… — John Mica Copy Share Image
What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Harlem for me is Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., in one place. You have very significant churches that have had national… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“Often it does not matter much what the law says; the politics will circumvent it. Every devastated watershed, every new mile of… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the… — Tamzin Merchant Copy Share Image
Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Our collaboration in building innovative technologies will support the Make in India vision of the Indian government. — John L. Flannery Copy Share Image
“...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support… — Albert Wynn Copy Share Image
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Marie-Thérèse played a key role in shaping European politics.In addition, as the Duchesse d'Angoulême, her face-off with Napoleon's soldiers was certainly a… — Susan Nagel Copy Share Image
“These politicians can’t see that the atomic age has created the most deadly saboteur in the history of the world – the… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
The Internet requires evolved forms of governance that we haven't figured out as a planet. I'd love to help make that easier… — Jeremy Allaire Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Islamic government is based on freedom of dialogue and will fight against any kind of censorship. — Ayatollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“They mean people who speak English and believe in small government, whether in San Francisco, Sligo, or Singapore.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image