There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may… — Charles H. Percy Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have… — Els Borst Copy Share Image
“Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing—and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers.… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess,… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice. — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
We feel on social media that we can speak to each other in a certain way. In politics we treat each other… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment. — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better. — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“He died a suspicious death. But only because he was a politician, and everything he did was suspicious.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image