Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
“We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
“In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.” — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on… — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
“As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED,… — Tania James Copy Share Image
“At a time when the current and two former US presidents have admittedly indulged, as have politicians of all stripes from Al… — Jeffrey Dhywood Copy Share Image
“Before the mid-20th century, when American libertarians entangled themselves in conservative coalitions against the New Deal and Soviet Communism, "free market" thinkers… — Charles W. Johnson Copy Share Image
“We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“A teacher expressed the feeling of many Americans: After Watergate, it's crazy to have trust in politicians. I'm totally cynical, skeptical. Whether… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I was in the classroom four days after the inauguration, because I said to Joe when we got elected, 'Joe, I really… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on.… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
I have missed meetings because a Speed Post from a government office reached after the meeting. But these are rare blips in… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Politics is a brutal business and since 2010 the Tories have been engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the opposition, trying primarily to… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run… — Pete Coors Copy Share Image
We need to draw up a regime where government can be an enabler for manufacturing to compete at good quality and prices. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states. — Allen West Copy Share Image
The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country. — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever… — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965),… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
