Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep,… — Ashraf Barhom Copy Share Image
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education,… — Plato Copy Share Image
What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,'… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a very striking fact about the elections which you can't miss if you looked at the red-and-blue electoral map the next… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
If you can’t lead and you can’t deliver, then your own personal political philosophy is pretty much irrelevant, there have been far… — Rich Nugent Copy Share Image
Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Most political operations - and government - don't try to be rigorous about decision-making or force themselves to think about what they… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
“A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction,… — Daniel S. Green Copy Share Image
I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't speak like a politician, and that's made some people uncomfortable. In a world of political correctness run amok, his… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
