My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time—it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Tolstoy Leo Graf Copy Share Image
“In the United States, France, and most other countries, talk about the virtues of the national meritocratic model is seldom based on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“At points on the day’s spectrum of adverse political developments, he could have moments of, almost everyone would admit, irrationality. When that… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives.… — Mark Neumann Copy Share Image
I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves,… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare… — Harold Stassen Copy Share Image
America remains the freest, most powerful and most prosperous nation in all the world, and yet, we face significant challenges. Among these… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the… — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“If this country ever falls into the grasp of a totalitarian dictator it is not likely to come through a Communist revolution,”… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think that the government honors and respects us, and that they're actually going to come in and help people in need,… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Thus, seeking to produce a typology of forms of the art of government, La Mothe Le Vayer, in a text from the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
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