“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
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Priorities have to be allocated by the government because they have a complete picture of the country's requirements. If priority is allocated… — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of… — Owen D. Young Copy Share Image
I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border.… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
“When technology is mobile, and transactions occur in cyberspace, as they increasingly will do, governments will no longer be able to charge… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
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Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of politicians,’ he said: ‘insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
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The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“the rich and powerful are always taken care of. This corruption is turning government into a tool of those who have already… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
Whatever your political leanings, it is disturbing that federal authorities were spying on emails and other private communications between President Donald Trump… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“But there's one word. You look at any other term of political discourse, and you're going to find the same thing: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“Returning to the Moral Majority, we must realize that regardless of whether we think the Moral Majority has always said the right… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced...… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made,… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
In normal times, at the beginning of each month, the federal government makes a cash advance to the Social Security Trust Fund… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The so called 'WOTUS Rule' was a gross overreach by the Obama Administration and put mud puddles and backyard ditches under government… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
I've got a really long record around progressive politics, especially when it comes to the economy. Voted against the Bush tax cuts.… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
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