A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice. — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space. — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
Although everything has a political connotation today, 'Mulk' is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader,… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions.… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary. — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance. — David Burge Copy Share Image
I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did. — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda. — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image
The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion. — Barbara Cubin Copy Share Image