“New Rule: Republicans must stop pitting the American people against the government. Last week, we heard a speech from Republican leader Bobby… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Supposedly, the government is in the process of saving us from terrorists. No one has quite figured out who is going to… — Doug Rose Copy Share Image
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“The irony is that only by a particularly narrow definition does a Walmart job get you off welfare - as a matter… — Laura Briggs Copy Share Image
Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
“It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble—whether instituting open housing, civilian complaint review boards, or… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“each is inherently expansive and evangelistic.” The abortion mandate firestorm isn’t dying down – and it shouldn’t. This is government overreach at… — Floyd G Brown Copy Share Image
“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Our respected so called nationalist friends forgot the history and re created the things as they wanted but failed to impress the… — Main Uddin Copy Share Image
“Laypeople complain about the rule of experts and they demand greater involvement in complicated national questions, but many of them only express… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition,… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring,… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Either for profit or for political malevolent reasons, people are polluting the otherwise wonderful democratizing agent called the internet, with all kinds… — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
I don't in any way underestimate the difficulties, because it's only gotten harder. But I do think you just have to go… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
For authoritarians such as Lenin and Žižek, the dichotomy in politics is state power or no power, but I refuse to concede… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The left are responsible for all the turmoil and the "social issues" of politics, because they're the ones constantly trying to corrupt… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If you look at Mugabe's entire political career, what is always missing is the essence of the person. He is a shrewd… — Jonathan Moyo Copy Share Image
The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces… — Rose George Copy Share Image
