A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh! — Anita Ekberg Copy Share Image
When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The West Wing' is an extremely naive entry into politics and political thinking. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.” — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
'Feed' is about zombies and politics and blogging. It's about how George Romero actually saved the world! It's 'Night Of The Living… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Design is not a politically or socially neutral space. Concepts are increasingly phenomena that mediate what kinds of relationships individual people, citizens,… — Wendy Gunn Copy Share Image
While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
“There can be no real political democracy unless there is something approaching an economic democracy,” he wrote. “There can be neither political… — Ganesh Sitaraman Copy Share Image
Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
In a weird way, I'm a good target for the government, because I can push back. — Maria Ressa Copy Share Image
Many people at different levels of the Russian government are open to crypto-currencies. — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place. — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly. — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers. — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
“Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Americans have witnessed the costs of allowing politics to pervade intelligence. — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
