“Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
That line, about half of somebody's supporters being deplorables, was maybe the worst line I've ever heard in politics. You never -… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
“Entirely in accordance with what education is supposed to be. Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Political campaigns, substantially based on volunteer help, attract a range of silly, needy, and opportunistic figures. The Trump campaign perhaps scraped lower… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The whole village has been drunk for the last three days. And as for feast days, it is simply horrible to think… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“The first and oldest of these traditions is tribe-like politics. I use the term “tribe-like” to refer to a pre-modern form of… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“I can read and write in nine different languages, two of which are dead ones and two fictional ones. I can solve… — J.C. Mells Copy Share Image
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Bernie was their last chance. A politician who came so very close to the nomination and the levers of power that he… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused,… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We were very proud in the sense that we would never take any government handouts. My parents, God bless them, never took… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the… — Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013 Copy Share Image
I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
“he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“The definition of politics is: The essence of getting things done. Politics is the lifeblood of getting ANYTHINGdone. If you dislike politics,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
