Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
What attracted me to it, beyond it being really intelligent, was that it was sadly something that would be unique on television.… — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value -… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory… — David C. Cassidy Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained… — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image
Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and… — Paul Lutus Copy Share Image
If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don't know anything about to be some form of, quote, political… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
And I strongly support the faith-based initiative that we're proposing, because I don't believe it violates the line between the separation of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Western world needs to ally themselves against the evil that is political Islam. To unite with its practitioners would be to… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany:… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the… — Linda Lingle Copy Share Image
“Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today,… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image