A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You will always have politics being pushed towards multiracial politics because you have to field a team. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless… — Jean Edward Smith Copy Share Image
We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the… — Matt Salmon Copy Share Image
The challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It takes a lot of moola to fool around with national magazines, regardless of their politics. It takes even more if the… — Warren Hinckle Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian government cannot accept a terrorist danger in… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
“Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]” — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and… — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“Don't let a corrupt Media and Criminal Government continue to Brainwash You. THINK FOR YOURSELVES JAMAICANS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Politicians are like bananas when they first come in they're green, then they turn yellow, and finally they're rotten! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts… — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send… — Barrett Brown Copy Share Image
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We can and must support our MPs in doing the job they will be elected to do: to hold the government to… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
“When you look into the wide range of science on environmental radiation, it is reasonable to conclude that there is an extensive… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Until all the files are released, former officials and CIA personnel will continue to say or imply that Fidel killed JFK, thus… — Lamar Waldron Copy Share Image
As a senator, I will prioritize overturning the current system and restoring openness and integrity to our government to return power to… — Conner Eldridge Copy Share Image
Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground. — Mehbooba Mufti Copy Share Image
“[W]hen injustice, robbery, and inequity are not just individual but institutional, it's time to take a political stand.” — Alisa Harris Copy Share Image
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image