“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
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
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
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
“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
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
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a… — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a particular view, still popular among left-wing intellectuals in the West, that the Soviet system was “socialism gone wrong.” This… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war.… — Shane MacGowan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
“Politics is the only realm where adults, ironically, vote to become immature children and elect their parents.” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
“If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.” — Alec Ross Copy Share Image
Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political… — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
