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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu… — Periyār Copy Share Image
We've never had to confront a really nationalistic American government since the War of 1812. But if it ever happened, it would… — Robert Bothwell Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less… — Lysander Spooner 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles… — Ron Paul 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
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter 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 pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature.… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
When the federal government settles a case, the settlement dollars should go to the victims or the Treasury - period. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image