What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Our government strives to create an independent and impartial judiciary that applies the law without bias or favoritism. And we are incorporating… — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I think it is right that government should have passed legislation that requires that relationships and sex education is taught in schools,… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false,… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity;… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I was involved with sports and student government, the regular stuff. I liked movies and all, but I did love the singing… — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The electric car, it's not the government saying, 'Oh, we must have electric cars.' The market was ready for that. People were… — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks… — Joao Lourenco Copy Share Image
Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that… — John Mica Copy Share Image
We know the power of the U.S.. We do not fool ourselves about this power. We say that the U.S. government wants… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
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