Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track. We'll support positive suggestions that we'll… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
“If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses. Without their hard work… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“In seven counties it was necessary to issue search and seizure warrants or arrest warrants or both compelling colonial prothonotaries to turn… — Francis Fox Copy Share Image
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“(Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
Apathy is dead. Show them the face of evil - Satanists lurking among us - running our governments, our banks, our schools,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Trump's lawyers are right that if a president does what he honestly thinks is simultaneously in his personal electoral and the national… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
One fundamental issue which Trump did take advantage of was the increasing disparities of income in the United States. So many people… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
“Why the conservatives, who controlled all three branches of the federal government, were still so enraged--at respectful skeptics of the Iraq War,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
“The claimed legitimizing devices of political consent or personal labour served only to obscure the unjustifiable seizure of land from the common… — Peter Vallentyne Copy Share Image
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because… — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“This busyness was not about money--despite the chic catalogs piled on the kitchen table. It was only marginally about good-heartedness or politics.… — Mary Sojourner Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In… — Lars Larson Copy Share Image
It does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating Donald Trump's finances or… — Matthew Whitaker Copy Share Image
“It is flawed by one thing: the abstraction of patriotism. People who will damn the government from morning till night, and oppose… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Even though the press at times made me completely crazy as they followed me around the hall, and asked tough questions over… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
We are called to serve the common good by engaging with political and other institutions, even in our pluralistic society. We bring… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years.… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The Confederate States of America in 1861 was legally an independent government. The Southern states seceded by popular conventions of the people… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is… — Siraj Wahhaj Copy Share Image
As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image