History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined… — Nandan Nilekani Copy Share Image
Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight… — Rona Ambrose Copy Share Image
As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil”… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
“The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the… — David J. Schow Copy Share Image
“The process of economic growth and the inclusive institutions upon which it is based create losers as well as winners in the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“In the process of building an inspiring and attractive alternative government, Liberals will not follow in Lord Derby's oft-quoted advice, given in… — Brendan Nelson Copy Share Image
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Citizens no longer understand democracy to mean a condition of political equality, in which one person gets one vote, and every individual… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still registering them at… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Men are now also in the minority among the entering traditionally male-dominated areas such as law and medicine. Finance and politics are… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Of course, the politicians, dictators, and warmongers weren’t happy, but their voices, which had always seemed so loud and intimidating, were suddenly… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
“As the state spreads it tentacles into every corner of life in the name of regulation, rationalization or economic development, people who… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In nearly a decade in city government, I have learned that the easiest thing to do in government is nothing. And in… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
“We are at our best when we love the Lord and his church more than our style of life. We do not… — Urban Tigner Holmes Copy Share Image
People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
“Christ does not intend just to hear our pious prayers and worship; but He intends to intervene in our schooling, our fights… — Matthew the Poor Copy Share Image
The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
