Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It's tricky when you have people tuning in to hear about sports, not politics, but I think in issues where they intertwine,… — Molly Qerim Copy Share Image
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on,… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the panic of white slavery lives on in our politics today. Black workers suffer, something in nature has gone awry. And… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“When we are electing government officials, it is not stupid to ask yourself, “If a plague broke out, do I think this… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts… — Carl Cohen Copy Share Image
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was… — Jonathan Moyo Copy Share Image
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
I think New Jersey's process is actually a very good one - the good government. The governor presents the budget, you've got… — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime,… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“A fatal disease vanishing for another reason was New Guinea’s laughing sickness, transmitted by cannibalism and caused by a slow-acting virus from… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines… — Jay Wright Forrester Copy Share Image
Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin said perhaps the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard any politician say. She said, 'The only thing that stops a… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
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