If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise,… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of… — George Soros Copy Share Image
American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
I thought I'd left politics when Labour lost the 2010 election and I went off and ran a thinktank for two years… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
“If choosing to love first can change enemies into friends on the battlefield of Iraq, I know that it can right here,… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“The president’s maladministration, which erodes public confidence in the government’s commitment to enforce immigration law and to provide Congress and the public… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
“This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012,… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“I told her to send the agent a letter, explaining that she would be happy to consider answering any questions he might… — James Duane Copy Share Image
The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Are there nations whose governments do all kinds of evil but never wake up and continue to sleep soundly? Yes, there are!… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
“Love makes you rebellious, revolutionary. Love gives you wings to soar high. Love gives you insight into things, so that nobody can… — Osho Copy Share Image
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
If you are among those who believe that the U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world - despite overwhelming evidence… — Wendell Potter Copy Share Image
I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another.… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
“Chet couldn’t wipe away his smile. “I have learned much since we parted ways, and one of those lessons is that a… — Rich Hoffman Copy Share Image
ECW was the most fun for me artistically. And then, WWE, it was also very fun, but that was part of it.… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. I watch certain politicians get asked questions that need answers… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
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