“If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The king who deals harshly with merchants who come from afar closes the door of well-being upon the whole of his subjects.… — Saadi Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's a bit questionable whether Turkey is a model country or not, since our government is supporting ISIS in Syria, since there… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
A thin safety net, an expansive security state: This is the American way. At all levels of government, the country spends roughly… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“When are voters in both political parties going to realize that politics is a two-way street? The politician creates a powerful, huge,… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I'm just going to play the politic card and just whoever the UFC needs me to beat, or whoever the UFC thinks… — Uriah Hall Copy Share Image
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I want to make it clear that BSP will not extend any kind of support to Modi or NDA to form the… — Mayawati Copy Share Image
My election only proves that the citizens are tired of the experienced politicians who over the past 28 years created a country… — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
We don't think government can solve all our problems. But we don't think government is the source of all our problems. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
“You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
No, you see, unlike some interviewers, I love politics... overall I am not anti-politicians at all. I recognise they are more important… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
Politics is about everything we do from the moment we get up in the morning to the minute we go to bed… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image