In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Some of the developing-country governments and populations are tired of having things rammed down their throats, but we're not yet at the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“building a network—connecting people or institutions in specific ways for specific purposes—is a far better starting point than a strategy of deterrence,… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
You've never heard me talk about politics all that much, and it's just - I can't think of anybody more dangerous as… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
From Arizonans like Cesar Chavez to Gabby Giffords, progressive politics is built on the belief that each of our individual efforts is… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The bottom line is this: It is not, in a country that was founded on the values of individual liberty and personal… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Instead of the concrete individual, you have the names of organizations and, at the highest point, the abstract idea of the State… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“We understand the forked tongue that our grandfathers talked about. [...] We know all the tricks of the wasicu world. Our young… — Nick Estes Copy Share Image
A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process.… — Marwan al-Muasher Copy Share Image
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense,… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
I made a promise to Michael Brown's parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
In a climate where much of foreign policy is a direct function of domestic politics, focusing on what one doesn't want is… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
“Political awareness without activism means looking at the devastation, your face turned toward the center of things. Activism can generate hope because… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character.… — Hal Urban Copy Share Image
A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family -- whether… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image