Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
There is also a great deal of behind-the-scenes pressure from political funders too. And by funders I don't just mean the fossil… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have never been political, which for a straight white man that's kind of a byproduct of privilege growing up that I… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't know if I even consider myself a very political person. I have always had strong beliefs on important social issues.… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags… — Simon Taylor-Davis Copy Share Image
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our situations... are very different. The nature of our politics is different. I don't deny, though, that political cycles, which are observable… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Doing what's best for our kids means having a governor that is prepared to reach across the political aisle to do what's… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of mankind we've always been subject to the whims of whatever our ruling body is saying. However the political… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“People don’t want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don’t want… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Political scientist Herfried Münkler is right: If you only take normative positions, if your focus is solely on values, you won't find… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or… — Alvaro de Vasconcelos Copy Share Image
It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it… — Dmitri Alperovitch Copy Share Image
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
We saw images and ideas from white supremacists literally shared from political campaigns showing up in the Twitter feeds of major news… — Jonathan Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
