For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
I've known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The number of states in the union has been fixed at 50 for so long, few Americans realize that throughout most of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Whatever our religion and our private convictions, we are the collective inheritors of things both excellent and rare, and political life, for… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“For while religion prescribes brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual spectacle more resembles a battlefield than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image
I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace,… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic positionThe… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
“the judge Don Achille speaks up, with sly and devastating irony, saying that the whole history of mankind is the history of… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time in my political life talking about why it matters to have women in the decision making,… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The Russians succeeded, I believe, beyond their wildest expectations. Their first objective in the election was to sow discontent, discord, and disruption… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will… — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“Beware the one-party state: the parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Any government that presumes to direct how its people relate to ultimate truths either believes it is the only guide to those… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“My contention is that a basic income would increase both the amount and the productivity of ‘work’, and could also increase the… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“His was the profession at that era in which intellectual ability displayed itself far more than in political life; for—leaving a higher… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“He was in a beastly hole. But decency demanded that he shouldn't act in panic. He had a mechanical, normal panic that… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
