I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
One thing I got from my parents was that they talked about politics all the time. They weren't educated or academic but… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss… — Jay Weatherill Copy Share Image
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. — George Galloway Copy Share Image
“Fanatics are everywhere, in religion, sports and politics. The majority are ready and willing to die for their beliefs. Even in love… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Politics? Check out a book on thermodynamics. All the rules apply. What you're talking about is essentially energy, or the absence of… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Every political contest is hard, that's part of the DNA in America. We make it really tough to run for and hold… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it. — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
“Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Politics being done by BJP and Congress by leveling accusations at each other over India-China border issue is not in the interest… — Mayawati Copy Share Image
The one thing that I learned from politics is you have to know how to watch your own back - and in… — Omarosa Manigault Newman Copy Share Image
What kind of security can you expect from a government that has failed to provide basic utilities like water and electricity to… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“The very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor. — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously. — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, &… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image