Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control… — Hutton Gibson Copy Share Image
“A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“It's tempting to think of US politics as sport or entertainment until you realize these clowns are actually making important policy decisions.” — Michael Sadoff Copy Share Image
“In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier.” — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“The answer of Solon on the question, 'Which is the most perfect popular govemment,' has never been exceeded by any man since… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America."… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It is not a problem of the market form but of markets deformed - deformed by the long shadow of historical injustices… — Gary Chartier Copy Share Image
Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book.… — James Vance Copy Share Image
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I am disappointed that we went through this process. The country went through this process. I think it's the responsibility of the… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Are we celebrating the fact that Guy Fawkes got caught trying to blow up parliament or he tried to have a go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without… — Matteo Renzi Copy Share Image
People want politicians to address the big issues and if they can do it across the divide of parties then so be… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows… — Amy Bass Copy Share Image
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
In political activity men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government. — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.” — Deborah Stone Copy Share Image
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic,… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
You begin to wonder as we make deals with the Taliban and we leave Afghanistan, if the federal government is not telling… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
