The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The important thing is that government gives the security services the tools that are necessary to keep us safe. — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics… — Gary North Copy Share Image
I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The big challenge is a suit not worn with a tie. To me, it's a very odd look. David Cameron and many… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“The patriotic fervor of a population is not always in direct proportion to its well-being and the fair dealing of its government.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Was the decline and decay of those houses inevitable, absent the political pressure and military conflicts of those times? How do they… — Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Copy Share Image
The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
“Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed… — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Politics of Kenya is all about copetition amongs politicians,its more of ethnicity and tribalism…when will this cease in Kenya. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is… — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not… — Christy Carlson Romano Copy Share Image
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government. — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
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