Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice. — James Cook Copy Share Image
“Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]” — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
“Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Anchors aren't just creating fiction; they're becoming characters in the fiction they themselves create. In the world of TV channels, facts are… — Ravish Kumar Copy Share Image
[The Bytyqi Brothers were] American citizens and we have been seeking answers to why no one's been held accountable for these atrocities.… — Ben Cardin Copy Share Image
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large… — Jerry A. Webman Copy Share Image
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't? — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results. — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image