Transitioning our households, businesses and government operations in Portland and Multnomah County to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 is achievable, but… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. AND… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the… — Achmat Dangor Copy Share Image
The corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds. The task of cleaning the corridors of power (or… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“The biggest disaster for a country is that the government, nation, and opposition trio are all rotten, because if only one of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system,… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the… — Du Mu Copy Share Image
In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We want market-based, consumer-based reforms in health care. We want to give people incentives to make wise choices in a marketplace, not… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
On climate and clean energy, government sets the international framework, and the private sector uses that framework to do what it does… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
For too long, America tolerated a 'democratic exception' in the Muslim Middle East. As long as governments were friendly and backed regional… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The cause of Peace has had my share of efforts, taking the ultra non-resistance ground - that a Christian cannot consistently uphold,… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that the principal cause of this misery in Nigeria lies in the actions of the leaders themselves, who,… — Barack Okaka Obama Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Since the fall of 2010, people associated with Charter Cities, a not-for-profit think tank that I founded, have been providing pro bono… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue… — John Lynch Copy Share Image
Our politicians are stupid.And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image