All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly.… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I believe that the way politics has been done in the country is wrong. It has always been based on alliances that… — Nayib Bukele Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers,… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent… — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of… — Perianne Boring Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery —… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“...the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations… — Tomislav Nikolic Copy Share Image
People need to realise that their governments are sitting on finite resources that will run out one day. Subsidising power and water… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
“The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings,… — David Almond Copy Share Image
Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this moment on, it's going to be America First. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I fell into politics by accident. It was not something I planned. It just happened because I'd done so much reading and… — Ernie Chambers Copy Share Image
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
“Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
There are people in politics who you meet and you don't realize what that relationship will end up being. — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
“Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.” — William J Federer Copy Share Image
If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a… — James Carville Copy Share Image
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The owner of Wikileaks has gone mad or he has joined hands with our opposition parties to malign my government. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
