Politics, by definition, is risk averse. Perhaps that's why America was so awestruck when Barack Obama ended the Black vs White debate… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.” — George will Copy Share Image
“Truth is a matter for theologians and philosophers. Politics is not concerned with the truth but with perceptions.” — Mathias Frey Copy Share Image
Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race. — Hugh Price Hughes Copy Share Image
The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U.… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I am aware that there was a general opinion among people that I was close to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, among other Left leaders.… — Roopa Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Is it not truly extraordinary to realise that ever since men have walked, no-one has ever asked why they walk, how they… — Tim Ingold Copy Share Image
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world,… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations,… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the… — Dave Kopel Copy Share Image
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
“He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Without government planning, economic resources and scientific research, individuals will not get far in their quest for happiness.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s. — Sergey Karaganov Copy Share Image
“extremists at both ends of the political continuum have more in common with each other than they do with the vast majority… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty… — Andy Zaltzman Copy Share Image
“C.H.R.I.S.T.I.A.N.I.T.Y.: it’s not so much the thing itself, but the side effects that kill you – the opportunistic infections of misinterpretation and… — Trebor Healey Copy Share Image
We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
