Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn"… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank,… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories.… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I think what Donald Trump is saying to people is that America has way more leverage at the negotiating table than America… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
In some traditional African dances, people wear masks in order to become the embodiments of particular spirits. I have heard that they… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If… — Mike Beebe Copy Share Image
It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
A President can obstruct justice and Congress has the full right to hold a President accountable for such law-breaking through impeachment. After… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other… — William Powell Copy Share Image
I feel like it's so, sort of representative of a generation. I mean everything that they talk about in the books are… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may… — William James Copy Share Image
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. The… — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe the family is the foundation of America - and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not… — Ed Whitfield Copy Share Image
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding… — Bob Hayes Copy Share Image
The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
“Unlike the simple majority vote required for the House to approve articles of impeachment, a conviction by a two-thirds supermajority of the… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image