“During the first day of the loss of Lahaina town, the government was saying only six people had died. As the day… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Reciprocal altruism, meanwhile, is rampant in Washington and is the primary channel through which interest groups have succeeded in corrupting government. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly.… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change. — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception. — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government,… — Jesse Taylor Copy Share Image
“No one will seek the highest [things] if he believes that there is no truth, that nothing is his fault, and that… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a… — Mario Copy Share Image
Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through… — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
“The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No… — D.P. Prior Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary.… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
