I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am… — H. D. Deve Gowda Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like… — William Hague Copy Share Image
There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
“A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.” — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone,… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
69 percent of the people want our politicians to work together. And I think this should be a message to Democrats and… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both… — Thomas Mulcair Copy Share Image
Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image