It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics… — John McCain Copy Share Image
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns… — Marc Racicot Copy Share Image
God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come,… — Mau Piailug Copy Share Image
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
We saw, then, journalists and researchers being arrested. And so this is sort of the latest expansion they say - cultural targets… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science,… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I'm not a political pundit, and I don't follow these things probably as closely as others, but there are polls that have… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures… — Mary McDonnell Copy Share Image
They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you,… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
