There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and… — Jill Clayburgh Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, sometimes our leaders, for their own political purposes, want us to think in terms of categories and groupings. Our group vs.… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics.… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I learn to be kind of balanced, because when I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I would get very… — Bianca Balti Copy Share Image
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
For some reason, there are political forces that somehow feel threatened by honest inquiry. How can you be threatened by wanting to… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
What we have got to do - especially with younger people, especially with people not heavily involved in the political process -… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image