People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating that politicians routinely lie to their electorate.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government… — Cynthia Dill Copy Share Image
When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can't expect a restraining order or the police to… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Ennoblement and empowerment, however, are not achieved in the theological or political realms alone. In this chapter, I examine how the law… — Joshua A. Berman Copy Share Image
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“about the safety of composites-based vehicles? Until recently, the prevailing view in the U.S. auto industry was that efficient autos are small,… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate,… — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that? — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“I make it a point not to pay attention to politics anymore.” “Yes, but soon politics will be paying attention to you,” — Kurt Schlichter Copy Share Image
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Sir John's temper since he has taken seriously to politics has become quite unbearable. Really, now that the House of Commons is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I am talking about politics, it is not about reading a book, theories on policies, but awareness on what is our… — Andrea Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride. — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
“He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressman were persons of intelligence and importance.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven… — Tom Bentley Copy Share Image
That's a fact of our federal system of government: each state runs their election differently - and that's OK. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional… — Giuseppe Prezzolini Copy Share Image
Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of… — William Hague Copy Share Image
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You tend to make your mistakes when you think like a politician in a political bubble and you forget the human dimension. — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
As someone who eats, drinks, and sleeps politics, it is nice to dive into a totally different subject I am passionate about. — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
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