Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them. — Adnan Pachachi Copy Share Image
Trust me. I'm going to make sure this healthcare bill is never, ever, ever implemented. — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
I understand it's seductive to use green technologies, for people who want to believe it. But it is a hoax in the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly,… — Enoch Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Protestants and Catholics have historically disagreed on the canon of the Old Testament but agreed on the canon of the New Testament.… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Today the brightest light in the Scottish political firmament has gone out. — Jim Sillars Copy Share Image
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it. — Ben Chifley Copy Share Image
Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. — Georges Bidault Copy Share Image