Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach… — Richard Crossman Copy Share Image
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
There is an undeniable economic and cultural disconnect between many of those who volunteer to serve and those who choose to remain… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
In times of crisis what has made America amazing has been the fact that, throughout our history, throughout the more than 200… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
From a policy point of view, I don't think it's the right approach. I don't like the idea of having millions of… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful -… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
You can't expect people who didn't exist as a community at all until about twenty years ago to have formed a political… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact… In Indianapolis they have come up… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I try not to make political arguments personal. It doesn't help and it switches a lot of people off. The real questions:… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
