I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions. — Betsy Hodges Copy Share Image
So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
“I now view theoretical physicists the same way I view politicians. If their lips are moving, they’re lying. If their lips aren’t… — Terence Thirteen Copy Share Image
Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Politics is where a few people are, some of the time. Culture is where many of the people are, most of the… — Andrew King Copy Share Image
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In India the government is very chaotic and poorly run. They are forced into action by public pressure. When it's a larger… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
“But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails--this is due… — Christopher Stasheff Copy Share Image
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in politics, or being a part of them. I definitely do my homework and make sure that I know… — Kate Mara Copy Share Image
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you,… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have no desire to be a politician. The role of chairman is not a politically aligned role, although it's all based… — Adam Gilchrist Copy Share Image
As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Active citizenship doesn't just mean running for office or going into politics; it means starting organisations that promote change or solve a… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“to me it sounded more like a pack of thieves making a deal, but then to me no human activity is so… — hf saint Copy Share Image
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather,… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
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