It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
'Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they… — David Pratt Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With the Republican Party's presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at]… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you're in a city where there's no clear startup community, the goal is not raise a bunch of money to fund… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the… — Talaat Pasha Copy Share Image
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l.… — Dudley North Copy Share Image
The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than too much government is too little: in failed states, people suffer at least as much violence and… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“If you are someone who knows the dark days of your country's history very well, you should definitely take part in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building -… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image