[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“Buckingham argues that young people's lack of interest in news and their disconnection from politics reflects their perception of disempowerment. "By and… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The nation’s leaders keep throwing out the word “Washington” as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Every one of us deserves the right to have a great education that's going to prepare us and give us the tools… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
What I do care about is that it's an obstacle to other women entering politics, because they'll say, "Why would I do… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there's ever been in a mayoral election, and - I say… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I truly believe —particularly in this political climate—I have to make my contribution a hopeful one. I can’t see the world any… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“These governments know much more than they will ever tell or care to spend money locating, because they have most of it… — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“My professional situation now couldn’t be more perfect,” Scott reports. “I chose to pursue the career I knew in my heart I… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We Americans like to believe we live in a free country with the right to use the justice system to ensure that… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you join a political party, you are attaching yourself with an organisation of skilled people. And when you work with an… — Govinda Copy Share Image
I wanted to repeat we cannot vote confidence at any point on a confidence motion in a government that fails to have… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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“It’s natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think none of the politicians do anything for the country. All they want to do is fill their coffers. But then… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was… — Jim Edgar Copy Share Image
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