Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found… — Sindiwe Magona Copy Share Image
Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image