When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government,… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A boring machine, would it drill holes—or put you to sleep? The two-party political system, that’s a boring machine, though voters are… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
“America operates under the notion of equality before the law. Basic fairness is an article of faith. We may not agree on… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We should by now have learned that politics remains national, even if economics does not: the history of the 20th century offers… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are: a) willful ignorance b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics. — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
After Victor Paz's government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina,… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow’s soldiers.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right… — Jack Anderson Copy Share Image
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Governance as strategy . For some researchers, the central purpose of governance is strategic. It is a mechanism for ensuring that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When you do deals with France involved, you want to make sure that the government endorses your deal, understands the strategic rationale. — Rajeev Suri Copy Share Image
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
