WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of… — Peter Baker Copy Share Image
For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel;… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Naturally, the president, as a US citizen, cannot be removed from the country. Nor can the president, who is the country's chief… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The possibility of impeachment's always there, but impeachment's a political thing, not legal, despite how it's structured. And it's not gonna happen… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Israel is the representative of the United States in the Middle East. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Josh, my question to you is why you ran against a Republican and spent $100,000, wasted $100,000, that could have been spent… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Impeachment really is not a criminal proceeding. The American people have been conditioned to believe that, you know, high crimes and misdemeanors… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
We use the word "God" as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image