I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech… — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the… — John Art Copy Share Image
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age,… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little… — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable… — Georgi Plekhanov Copy Share Image
“I read the first few," said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who… — Edward R Murrow Copy Share Image
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon,… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
“In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach. — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
“Consider this argument another wedge served from the malodorous pie known as "My way is Right," the dessert of choice for politicians,… — Jeff Deck Copy Share Image
“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Governments cannot do innovation. There are too many audits, and no one stays in a role for long enough. — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
As Navajo Nation President, Albert Hale worked to provide a greater voice for Chapters in Tribal government. — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined. — John Ringo Copy Share Image
The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
