“Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to… — Terry Savage Copy Share Image
“In the late 1830s the Chinese government issued a ban on drug trafficking, but British drug merchants simply ignored the law. Chinese… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“I am a conservative in large part because I believe that politics should intrude on life as little as possible. Conservatives surely… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
When I met Barack Obama, in our first year of law school, he had already put on his big-time politician act. He… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
The rise of the punishing state and the governing-through-crime youth complex throughout American society suggests the need for a politics that not… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions... These so-called… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have to say that I think Bernie Sanders is the first politician since Dennis Kucinich that I've been truly inspired by.… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“The Obama administration had waged what people across the political spectrum were calling an unprecedented war on whistle-blowers. The president, who had… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“CNN and The New York Times are called fake news by some people on our side, while the president personally thanks infowars.com… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
“What is the sum of not recognizing the tremendous need for self reflection of all entities in our times. History repeats itself,… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to “preserve and protect.” Then someone added “provide.” When governments began to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“If you violate societal law; laws of society, of the government, of the public, then you will be defamed, the mind will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The Federal Reserve has always advertised itself as being above politics, impervious to outside influence. This is, of course, nonsense. The chairman… — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image
“Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all… if we did… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“In Germany, people will agree in theory that prostitution should be legal, but they usually won't admit that they themselves have ever… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
“some nations have tried to bring about more economic equality in economically harmful ways, not through opening up free markets but through… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to… — John C. Goodman Copy Share Image
It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“..each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
