We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You could take seriously a president that quoted T. S. Eliot. But none do, and none ever would. No president would ever… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
“Wars are supposed to be declared by governments. Parliaments and kings are supposed to decide whether hostilities shall begin. Never, since the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
“It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as ours should, over the years, have come yo… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“But Ethiopia and America were nervous of an Islamic government and the US and other nations sponsored Ethiopia to invade Somalia and… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
“What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
One example that has hurt me is that of Aung San Suu Kyi. I admire her a lot, but her unwillingness to… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story,… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be… — Joseph A. Califano, Jr Copy Share Image
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Anyone who sends their children now to government schools usually does it because they can't afford private education. I went to a… — Atishi Copy Share Image
I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Syria, there are clear red lines when it comes to politics and religion, but people’s personal habits are not considered part of… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
It (Congress) is a funny party. It is the largest political organization in the world but perhaps does not have a single… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch,… — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
“I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life… — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
“If the goal of feminism is to end patriarchy and gender-based oppression, then transgender politics supplies us one of the most important… — Shiri Eisner Copy Share Image
“The liberal radio host Garrison Keillor captured the spirit and self-image of the modern American left when he wrote: I am a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The only thing about politics I do discuss is, be into them: Read what's online. Read what the candidates are talking about.… — Elvis Duran Copy Share Image
I will not interfere with the courts at all. For now,[William] Ruto is a political necessity, but you know in politics we… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life,… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image