The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure… — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you're a Republican politician and you're seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Taliban should keep it in mind that one of us has to die one day. And if I die early, it… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I thought Donald Trump once again just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury Hillary Clinton, and he missed them because… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say,… — Liberace Copy Share Image
To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
We owe $20 trillion, and we're a mess. And we've spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, according to a report that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of… — Flea Copy Share Image
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise -… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children;… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging… — John Ibbitson Copy Share Image
One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image