It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have… — John L. DeWitt Copy Share Image
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
“Nobody is either honest or dishonest. Life is a gradient, and a saint might be an 8.7, and a dirtbag politician might… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law. Nancy Pelosi… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees,… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“In every domain, from business and politics to science and art, the people who move the world forward with original ideas are… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Development of a framework for the reporting of cyber incidents between government and industry is considered a priority. This includes the government… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“They looked at the world around them and saw that the government was a ball of wasteful red tape; that the taxi… — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of… — John Morris Roberts Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going… — George Allen Copy Share Image
It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Returning to Washington,FDR declared that Yalta Conference had put and end to the kind of balance-of-power divisions that had long marred global… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“the Northern people; whereas, as a matter of fact, but for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, I believe the great majority of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image