In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , May 19, 1821 }” — John Adams Copy Share Image
“A high-level government agent was arrested today for selling secrets to Russia. They now have all of the exact locations of our… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have publicly and privately denounced military interventions in domestic politics. In fact, I have been advocating for democracy… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
In Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands. Throughout the hemisphere, paternalistic governments accustom people to receiving just enough to survive… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
“I’d certainly hate to see you sitting around in those smoke-filled rooms at the club debating politics. It’s just not the right… — Ariel Lawhon Copy Share Image
America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt. — John Thune Copy Share Image
Any government objective should be and only be: not to make life easy for everybody but rather to make their dreams become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to our constitution, political emigres have the right to reside on our territory. We accord them the right of asylum, the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am fed up with career politicians. I am tired of going into the voting booth and holding my nose to pick… — Todd Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used as a blanket, if you’re a roach or politician. Warmth can be so crushing at times. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation. — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Demonetisation was always on the government's radar and was part of the plan from day one when Narendra Modi took over as… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
