Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control,… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for… — Dan Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon… — Sharon L. Reddy Copy Share Image
The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics,… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“For me, a website would be user friendly if it gave me a handjob. It’d be doubly impressive if it were also… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Clearly, not uncritical apologetics but penetrating and thoughtful criticism is alone capable of bringing out the treasures of experiences and teachings.” — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians. — Roger Ver Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, the very moment a legitimate government starts fascist implementations, it loses its legitimacy! When a government becomes illegitimate, it… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If a storm threatens Louisiana, it takes cooperation at each level of government to help protect the public. — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy. — Pat Quinn Copy Share Image