“The job was “a graveyard of politicians” in Washington parlance, traditionally disparaged by the men who held it. The VP before Truman,… — A.J. Baime Copy Share Image
“Public life drives out private life. The more political our society becomes (in the broadest sense of ‘political’ — the obsessions, the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“She spotted Matt Holden and her eyes began to twinkle. He was a handsome devil, even at his age. His wife had… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out,… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people.… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
“If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The behaviour of several male politicians against me has never been condemned by Ed Miliband, or the Labour Party, and it needs… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“one who, though he never digress to read a Lecture, Moral or Political, upon his own Text, nor enter into men’s hearts,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide… — Greta Van Susteren Copy Share Image
Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts -… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
My political career began on the other side of the fence from the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore - both literally and figuratively.… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“After years of watching their patrimony squandered in this way, a large percentage of the [Niger] Delta's population feels abandoned by both… — John Ghazvinian Copy Share Image
I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
“When men are spoken of as kings and subjects, or when Government is mentioned under the distinct and combined heads of monarchy,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, I think everybody can agree that politicians are crooks. But I don’t think politicians are… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
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