“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together. — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
The government will continue to support India's paralympians with facilities and funding so that they may continue to excel internationally. — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support.… — Piers Corbyn Copy Share Image
“His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To say or imply that the foundation exists only on the sufferance of government is to reason from the untenable notion that… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle… — Alan Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated. — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix. — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
The government is keeping detailed records on how many Americans have carports. How many Americans have mold in their bathroom. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics. — Duncan Hunter Copy Share Image
“What you’d call stealing, I’d call a mistake. Or, if I were a politician, I’d call it an opportunity, and my privilege.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country. — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image