“An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low. — Wallace Sayre Copy Share Image
Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“As a soldier, I would hang him. As a politician, knowing him my enemy, I need him near me.” — Alaric Longward Copy Share Image
The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about… — Tom McClintock Copy Share Image
The reason that I decided to get into politics is because I have begged, pleaded, and cried for years for our government… — Paula Jean Swearengin Copy Share Image
“it is all very well to shut oneself away from politics, but if one feels that a real crime is being done,… — Jane Fletcher Geniesse Copy Share Image
It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it,… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government… — Rose Pastor Stokes Copy Share Image
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In Israel, we are sorry for the loss of life of Turkish citizens in May 2010, when Israel confronted a provocative flotilla… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. — William Weld Copy Share Image
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Russian government doesn't like me; Vladimir Putin doesn't like me. — Bill Browder Copy Share Image