I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No man should have a political office because he wants a job. — Franklin Knight Lane Copy Share Image
Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Copy Share Image
An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system. — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess Copy Share Image
Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good,… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We made a sacred covenant to follow the Creator's life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of… — Thomas Banyacya Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image