“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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“In The Prince Machiavelli mounts two distinct lines of intellectual and political attack, one against the baseness of Medicean statecraft, the other… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System,… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
“EIGHTH AMENDMENT The government shall not “crack down” on drug crime while taking kickbacks from industries and companies perpetuating addiction and abuse.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from… — Guilherme Leal Copy Share Image
The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If we can successfully lift the stranglehold of bureaucracy and old ways of thinking, we can see some real innovation in biodiversity… — Mindy Baha El Din Copy Share Image
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
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The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“The ‘republican’ variant is that freedom must mean non-domination. Stemming from Aristotle, republican freedom requires freedom from potential domination as well as… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Indian elite send their children to expensive private schools, bypassing the public school system. They have their own infrastructure for water,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Polls are a snapshot in time and America - the American people - are whole people. They lead whole lives and they… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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