This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these… — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
“Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.” — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams… — Tom Heinsohn Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We were going to call it "Star Trek: The Avengers", and for a while we were like, "People are going to love… — Bryan Burk Copy Share Image
The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election… — Clyde Kluckhohn Copy Share Image
There is a big problem. It's called encryption. And the people in San Bernardino were communicating with people who the FBI had… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image