“building a network—connecting people or institutions in specific ways for specific purposes—is a far better starting point than a strategy of deterrence,… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
Some of the developing-country governments and populations are tired of having things rammed down their throats, but we're not yet at the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
From Arizonans like Cesar Chavez to Gabby Giffords, progressive politics is built on the belief that each of our individual efforts is… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The bottom line is this: It is not, in a country that was founded on the values of individual liberty and personal… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
You've never heard me talk about politics all that much, and it's just - I can't think of anybody more dangerous as… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
“In every domain, from business and politics to science and art, the people who move the world forward with original ideas are… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees,… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“They looked at the world around them and saw that the government was a ball of wasteful red tape; that the taxi… — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Development of a framework for the reporting of cyber incidents between government and industry is considered a priority. This includes the government… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
“You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of… — John Morris Roberts Copy Share Image
Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“the Northern people; whereas, as a matter of fact, but for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, I believe the great majority of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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![“It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.” quote by Stephen D. Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd1/stephen-d-cox-91414_aids_it-s-always-amusing-to-see-how-much-less_62268.jpg)
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