Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions. — Jesse Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority. — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The one thing about America is you have the freedom to think what you want and do what you want without the… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“Political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“The first report suggests that “social computing could play an increasingly important role in re-engaging citizens in political debate, in securing social… — Derek Hansen Copy Share Image
I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates… — Kathleen Wynne Copy Share Image
“February is pitiless, and it is boring. That parade of red numerals on its page adds up to zero: birthdays of politicians,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels… — Ken Leung Copy Share Image
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff.… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington. — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly uncommitted to party politics. I vote Labour but only because Glenda Jackson was my MP and I loved her on… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics,… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He accepted the social and political conditions as they were, made no endeavor to reform them, and confined himself exclusively to setting… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle? — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not… — Nabil Elaraby Copy Share Image
When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is a very matured person and an extremely capable politician, and he has crossed 75... like Advani... he is sharper… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
But politics is something that would require so much of me. I'm a public figure now, but as a politician... It's more… — Pam Shriver Copy Share Image
I would like to implore all the governments of the world to come together to form a protocol to regulate virtual currency. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not… — Jacinda Ardern Copy Share Image