People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need… — Bernardino Leon Copy Share Image
In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The degree to which the people of America are being dumbed down on purpose every day is striking. And all for the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“In response to be asked about Boris Johnson becoming UK Prime Minister... "I'm delighted. As the UK continues to plunge ever faster… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will… — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons .… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents… — Ruben Aguilar Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation.… — Said Seyam Copy Share Image
The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And we have a Fed that's doing political things. This Janet Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political - by… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political… — Joshua Micah Marshall Copy Share Image
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image