A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable. — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“It was a lucrative contract, by der Hovsepian’s own account worth $126m. As further reward for his rapid delivery, the arms dealer… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph]… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Some people say politics is a dirty game but I say politics can be clean and good game if played with honesty… — DAVID OKAFOR Copy Share Image
2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such… — Jacob Sullum Copy Share Image
I've never seen myself as a strictly political songwriter in a sense, but I think in the world that we live in,… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and… — Irwin Stone Copy Share Image
“Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to… — Sady Doyle Copy Share Image
We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
My commitment to the American people is that I will remain focused on bringing true oversight and reform to our federal government… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer. — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative. — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government. — Preneet Kaur Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Politics isn’t won by commanding the facts, but by connecting with people’s experiences.” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick. — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image