People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the… — Spruille Braden Copy Share Image
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The Committee on House Administration plays a pivotal role in my top priority here in Congress: restoring trust in our government through… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution.… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“Let's have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence -- for a political and/or economical purpose -- carried out against… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Reading, as it turned out, is the easy part. Finding a good book is the real challenge. It's a crapshoot. It's like… — Doug Robinson Copy Share Image
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
“If Jesus viewed the desire to acquire political power to be a temptation of the devil, why do so many American Christians… — Keith Giles Copy Share Image
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number. — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration. — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means. — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
We can only comment on what we've seen, and what we've seen from the Chilean government is nothing at all. — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
My Government has not only enhanced the credibility and prestige of the passports held by the Indian diaspora but has also stood… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good,… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I am an actor first and foremost. Even without my involvement in politics, I was staying away from sub-standard work. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
Well, generally, I don't like sin taxes at all, because sin taxes and nanny state politics represent the government making a moral… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch… — Greta Van Susteren Copy Share Image
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it’s come to the point… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
