Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I strongly supported the war against Houthi rebels because I saw them as the antithesis of the Arab Spring that my government,… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
“Power does not ask permission. Power does not take permission. Power does not need permission.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing.… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We consider ISIS and extremism to be a threat to all of us in the region. . . . Our position is… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Serikali haishirikiani na huruma katika kufanya maamuzi yake. Inashirikiana na akili.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I've worked in government. I've worked in competitive New York litigation, I've worked as a writer and reporte.. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
We can't always wait on the government to sort out all issues. I think they set policies, they set the rules, but… — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
The most basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government. — Ken Starr Copy Share Image
We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
It's essential that we have a coordinated, well-resourced government response to the coronavirus to keep Kansas communities safe. — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We will work with all stakeholders, including the Union government and other political parties, to ensure we do what's best for our… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States. — Peter Kuznick Copy Share Image