Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“So we Europeans are shocked by the blind, uncomprehending hard-heartedness that certain American government policies imply. I am thinking of the terrible… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately -… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What happens with identity politics sometimes is there's a competition among the oppressed: You're more oppressed than me and if not, then… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital.… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as… — Shaheen Mistri Copy Share Image
Now the world believes in Kurds, as they have become partners in that region. The West doesn't believe in the Iraqi government… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
“You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Although pundits and politicians, usually male, often claim that motherhood is the most important and difficult work of all, women who take… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
In the late '80s, the U.S.S.R. loosened its restrictions on immigration. When the government was like, 'Y'all wanna bounce?' my family, along… — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Deepfakes - seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online - are likely to send American politics into… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third,… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
“And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I'm interested in helping people obtain the benefits enjoyed by the First World of efficient government. I want people in sub-Saharan Africa… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The most important thing the federal government can do is actually sit down with municipal leaders and provincial premiers to talk about… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending… — Marlin Stutzman Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t mind politicians lying to me, stealing from me, or senselessly making life difficult if they didn’t try to claim they… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,… — John Francis Hylan Copy Share Image
And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Not only have the country's two main political parties split further apart on such issues, but political feeling also runs deeper than… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image