Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name (“the first rule in politics,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
I think I'm better at triaging and recognizing that my job is not to have an opinion about every single new development… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“...friendship stands as a small affront to the total control of all things by mass entertainment and mass media and mass education… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Back in August 2002, I was hired as a reporter for a website covering New Jersey politics, then still a pretty novel… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Politicians say problems to teens happen because they are so ultra modern.. well, if you watch our dear nation's leaders car, t.v,… — Rose Hathway Copy Share Image
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men… — Maureen Reagan Copy Share Image
From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos… — Eduardo Bhatia Copy Share Image
“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s… — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free.… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate,… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that… — Jack Lessenberry Copy Share Image
This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders. — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education.… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image