Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
When I got involved in politics and started running, there were questions about whether a woman could take care of her kids… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing?… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
And, when it comes to politics, it can be awfully difficult to put your desires aside and to acknowledge that the world… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes. — Zainab al-Khawaja Copy Share Image
Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government -… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party… — John Howard Copy Share Image
“And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
On op-ed pages and around dinner tables, Americans have substantive conversations about politics. And while the facts aren't always right, the discussion… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
“One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable… — Ernie Fletcher Copy Share Image
It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The federal government has shown little willingness to stand up to corporate monopolies, and use its powers under the existing antitrust statutes,… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set… — Stephen Johnson Field Copy Share Image
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama. — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
My ideology is the same as that of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which doesn't believe in a vote bank politics. It's… — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." (Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend… — Bob Latta Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate… — Wale Copy Share Image
Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war;… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without… — Alfred Cobban Copy Share Image
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image