Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
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Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the… — Edwin A. Locke Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs… — Jerome Liebling Copy Share Image
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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
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It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it… — John T. Chambers Copy Share Image
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We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
“He had spent the last five years, he [JFK] said ruefully, running for office, and he did not know any real public… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Michael Kruse made the point that, on the one hand, this seems all totally unprecedented in American politics; on the other hand,… — Susan Glasser Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s the Singapore government gave preferential school admission to the children of mothers with university degrees, while offering less-educated women… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Problems in our country haven't been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
In order to prepare for meaningful change, we have to look at both sides of the problem. We need to examine the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“elected officials on the right side of the political equation, Scott included, would spend less time hiding under their desks when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
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“Political mandates matter, but delivering on promises requires institutions. And it takes individuals to build those institutions, so expertise matters, as does… — Shankkar Aiyar Copy Share Image
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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