The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you asked a Singaporean, on the one hand they'll say, 'Let us do our own things.' On the other hand, when… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives. — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“If your favorite politician got ran over by a bus, I’d express my condolences by telling you I know how you feel.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Americans who believe their government should not be a giant ATM, dispensing money and benefits to people who have not earned them,… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time. — Aaron Wildavsky Copy Share Image
Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“At 5.45 a.m. the important scientists finished their coffee and played rock paper scissors to see who had to phone the government.” — Mitch Benn Copy Share Image
There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates… — Jean Dreze Copy Share Image
Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Compassion is defined not by how many people are on the government dole but by how many people no longer need government… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic… — Anselm J. McLaurin Copy Share Image
I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages. — Eduardo Bhatia Copy Share Image
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
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