“As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the… — Alexander Carson Copy Share Image
In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
My view is that the cyber threat is bigger than any one government agency - or even the government itself. But the… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
“Imagine, representatives of our own government taking the side of a foreign country over the interest of American citizen. If it ever… — William W. Johnstone Copy Share Image
Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“when personal incomes are taxed 50, 60 or 70 percent. People begin to ask themselves why they should work six, eight or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“The relationship between the famous and the public who sustain them is governed by a striking paradox. Infinitely remote, the great stars… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The central question for American politics right now is how did the country that elected Barack Obama elect Donald Trump. There's a… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about.… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“WE TEND TO assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get… — Pete Domenici Copy Share Image
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella,… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
“Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home,… — John Médaille Copy Share Image
Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
Will I criticize Hillary Clinton on her position of TPP, or the lack of position? Will I criticize her on her views… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“To me, there is only one God. An unnamed presence we'll never understand. Everything else is human politics. It was human beings… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the… — Rex Hunt Copy Share Image
The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
“In light of their views on the organization of society and political economy, Westerners, especially Americans, can be separated into two basic… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
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A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“Liberty has never come from the government,” Wilson had told his audience. “Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government.… — Gerard Helferich Copy Share Image
“An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
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