How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
People are yearning for a politics that tells it straight: that being in government is difficult, that there are tough decisions that… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because better public understanding enhances the effectiveness of policy. More important,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whether you're a populist; whether you're a limited government conservative; whether you're libertarian; whether you're an economic nationalist - we have wide… — Stephen K. Bannon Copy Share Image
I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
While I was a part of the movement Teach For Change, an NGO which focuses on training government primary and high school… — Pranitha Subhash Copy Share Image
Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The over-representation of Wall Street banks in senior government positions sends a bad message. It tells people that one - and only… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We send a lot of money - I don't know, I think it's in billions - of money to the Saudi government.… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars,… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I want to use my position of influence to change the laws of the land to the benefit of the women of… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
A government reflects the views of those who select it, and if people are unable to cast their ballot because the voting… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image