Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone… — Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Copy Share Image
The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Little had changed after independence. Jomo Kenyatta’s face hung in a framed portrait in every shop where Queen Elizabeth’s had been. Some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the… — Laura Kuenssberg Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
Companies need to be very active in formulating public policy - not as a substitute for government, but as a supplement. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing… — William Barr Copy Share Image
The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes,… — Plato Copy Share Image
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of… — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
