When I first covered [presidential election ] in 2008, I was asking questions for kids around the world, but mainly for myself.… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“The thing about Mia's logic was that it was hard to argue with without sounding like the bad guy. Every objection had… — Patrick Riot Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Blair ... argued that while he rejected doctrinaire “socialism,” he was committed to what he called “social-ism.” Blair’s hair-splitting got at an… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
Local Arab partners and the Iraqi government must lead the fight against ISIL. U.S. military advisers are important to this effort, but… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
I would say to the people of Queensland, and to all listeners around the country, is that if you want stable government… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
There's been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love is like a country of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world,… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
“Pardon me for budging into concoction of the aristocrats blowing their trumpets, the demagogues' doctrines, the antagonists' squeals, the hypocrites' assertions, the… — Mukesh Kwatra Copy Share Image
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the… — Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013 Copy Share Image
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
We were very proud in the sense that we would never take any government handouts. My parents, God bless them, never took… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused,… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“Bernie was their last chance. A politician who came so very close to the nomination and the levers of power that he… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“I can read and write in nine different languages, two of which are dead ones and two fictional ones. I can solve… — J.C. Mells Copy Share Image
“The first and oldest of these traditions is tribe-like politics. I use the term “tribe-like” to refer to a pre-modern form of… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image