If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action…

No one wants to trivialise the gigantic challenge of battling terrorism or undermine the sacrifice of our soldiers and policemen.

— Barkha Dutt

“Then why should the side effects of your exercise of religious freedom effectively “impose your religion” on those affected—or undermine their own freedom of…

— John Corvino

Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession…

— Rand Paul

I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits,…

— Alan Greenspan

And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood…

— Edward Said

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

— Thomas Hobbes

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological…

— Leonard Bernstein

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No…

— Elie Wiesel

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by…

— Alexis Ohanian

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent…

— Simon Greenleaf

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and…

— Thomas Pogge

One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?…

— James Fallows

In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing…

— William Kristol

As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic…

— Bernie Sanders