“One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“But the ineffectiveness of “facts” didn’t stop there. The election of Trump was not just a political choice, a vote against minorities… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Political Correctness started out as a movement that intended to protect minorities from harassment. But it has morphed into an excuse for… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon — who was simply willing to lie.” — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who… — Zakes Mda Copy Share Image
“In my dream, the passenger seat of my car was a toilet. I guess I was on my way to pick up… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it… — Yosef Marcus Copy Share Image
People are sick of the political system and the players in the system - BJP, Congress, Akalis. They want a good alternative… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
To create a society that is supportive of child-rearing parents is a role of the government, and we are also working to… — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters… — Mark Almond Copy Share Image
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image