After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Thus, seeking to produce a typology of forms of the art of government, La Mothe Le Vayer, in a text from the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think that the government honors and respects us, and that they're actually going to come in and help people in need,… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the… — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“If this country ever falls into the grasp of a totalitarian dictator it is not likely to come through a Communist revolution,”… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare… — Harold Stassen Copy Share Image
America remains the freest, most powerful and most prosperous nation in all the world, and yet, we face significant challenges. Among these… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves,… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been to the beach and wanted to feed the seagulls? The problem is you tear off a little crust… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“few weeks later, back in Miami, I spot a small news item. Thailand’s newly installed prime minister, Surayud Chulanont, the civilian face… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I've been a vocal advocate for Medicaid expansion, which is why I co-sponsored legislation to incentivize states like Kansas to expand Medicaid… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands)… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance,… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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