Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician. — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
“The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“They view the government as their enemy, profit as their only friend – probably do not even see themselves as the traitors… — Andrew Wareham Copy Share Image
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“the fatal false step which, once taken, would thrust her down into the terrible slavery of appetite and hate and economics and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that all books aren't that way. I think that might apply to any book I was writing. The book… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“That was one of the troubles with the Istiqlal, with all politics: you talked about people as though they were not really… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“The U.S. government decided it would become the world sheriff. No one forced it to take on the role. Yet ever since… — Victor Malarek Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“On January 3, 1992, a meeting of Russian and American scholars took place in the auditorium of a government building in Moscow.… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Ask not what you can do for your country, for they are liable to tell you — Mark Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice. — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. — John Sununu Copy Share Image
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. — Eleanor Clift Copy Share Image
I've proposed a contract with the American voter that will give the government back to the people. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
