From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
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The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
I came out very strongly that we want a border, and the Mexican government probably convinced him that Donald Trump was saying… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own… — Pericles Copy Share Image
When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector.… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of mixing ideologies," Ivanov continued. "There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles.… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
I am Christian from when I was little. Because of the politics in Spain, everybody must be Christian by law. But I'm… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
It was with horror that I learned of the abominable terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the… — Gerhard Schroder Copy Share Image
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As Pennsylvania Attorney General, I have the responsibility to act as a check on the federal government when it infringes upon our… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
I always remember the teachings of our ancestors: respect for God, teacher, government, and both parents. Even after I became president, I… — Suharto Copy Share Image
India lived in hopelessness, as the government was not responsive. It did not know what the poor needed. There was complete policy… — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
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The old 20th-century political model of Left vs. Right is now basically irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
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[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I was previously involved in local and state politics, but not national, because grassroots democracy starts at the bottom. This was the… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Feronia played at politics the way she played chess--shrewdly, always thinking about her next move. In this game, Feronia was queen, and… — Kaye Thornbrugh Copy Share Image
The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
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