I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care… — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against… — Steven T. Byington Copy Share Image
It's really great when you can admonish a lawmaker, but at the same time, get them to talk about the process of… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. — George Will Copy Share Image
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations -… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
“Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the table for clients to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government.… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
There's a road that runs through our humanity and it traverses political and partisan lines, and my job as a U.S. senator… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
“Some resented the way coffles, driven right through town, put the most unpleasant parts of slavery right in their faces. Others resented… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process. — Nigel S. Wright Copy Share Image
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I'll be forever grateful for everything Congresswoman Barbara Jordan did to pave the way for black women in politics. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the easy… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“[...] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
While I support making improvements in the Affordable Care Act, trying to enact them while holding the government and our economic recovery… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image