I think people are just puzzled by why people where I'm from make the political choices sometimes that they do. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the… — Aryeh Neier Copy Share Image
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“If I run for office, my political platform will be made of wood, and it’ll be made by the people.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the case of Donald Trump I think you've got to accept that a lot of what's going on in political discourse… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
As a British person, I am unable to give strategic advice to political campaigns in the U.S. — Alexander Nix Copy Share Image
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and… — Zhang Yimou Copy Share Image
If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed. — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget. — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process. — Jim McGovern Copy Share Image
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image