“Riyadh was the base of the government, but none of the Al Sa’ud family particularly enjoyed the city; their complaints never ended… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest assumptions of present-day mental models is the idea that world of moderation must be a world of strict,… — Donella H. Meadows Copy Share Image
The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency,… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want… — Judd Gregg Copy Share Image
“There's a reason I've always relied on you for the necessary political miracles, Emily," Hamish told her with a smile. "Give me… — David Weber Copy Share Image
I support the administrative rules promulgated by the Department of the Interior which permit a Native Hawaiian government to establish a relationship… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
“The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the… — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
I think part of our problem right now in the country is that people feel that nobody listens to them. And that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority.… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
We do not need more federal government overreach and control of our land and water, and I will always fight to protect… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Let anyone who believes that a high standard of living is the achievement of labor unions and government controls ask himself the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in… — Josh Mandel Copy Share Image
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings.… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“Neoliberal economics, the logic of which is tending today to win out throughout the world thanks to international bodies like the World… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was… — Maria de Medeiros Copy Share Image
If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“This is why governments all over the world love missionaries—they civilize people and get them into the money system,” Suelo observes now,… — Mark Sundeen Copy Share Image