Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“[...] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The first time I set foot in Boston City Hall, I felt invisible - swallowed up by the cavernous concrete hallways, and… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
The government doesn't want us to have weapons and yet, they have weapons. I think the biggest weapon they have is the… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an… — Chester Middlebrook Pierce Copy Share Image
The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same… — Larry McDonald Copy Share Image
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such… — Jacob Sullum Copy Share Image
Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It's really great when you can admonish a lawmaker, but at the same time, get them to talk about the process of… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, while the Maastricht debate was raging, I was a minister in the Major government. Every single piece of legislation… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
“Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I refuse to be bullied into accepting that crashing out of the E.U. with no deal would be an acceptable course for… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a… — A. Hunter Dupree Copy Share Image
No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
When I was a senior, I had government class and I slept so much my assignment was to write 'I will not… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
Even beyond policy considerations, Romneycare was a horrible model to suggest for the federal government because the Constitution does not give Congress… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image