[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. — George Pataki Copy Share Image
They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to… — Mahesh Rangarajan Copy Share Image
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln. — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion … It does not remain fixed in any unchanging… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament. — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe? — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
We've got [evidence] of direct Russian government connections with the [Donald] Trump campaign, during the campaign, while the Russian government was interfering… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
“Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Gun owners are not buying firearms because they anticipate a confrontation with the government. Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn't… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“It was politics and religion, in van Dyck’s private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.” — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events,… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like… — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ever since dodgy dossiers and the spin which launched us into the Iraq war, trust in politics has been plummeting. — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It’s a sad fact in the political arena that once you get a taste of power, you feel like you know everything.” — C.G. Cooper Copy Share Image
We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge]. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Learning more about America's history and the way our government functions is exciting - and it is necessary. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Government policies ought to encourage families to stay together and work hard to improve their lives, not punish them. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image