I think there are people in this Congress who actually believe that government does not have a benign role in the lives… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
I always say I was a liberal, but I wasn't active in politics. I just assumed I was a liberal because I… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and… — Vladimir Zhirinovsky Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn't there… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made,… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Returning to the Moral Majority, we must realize that regardless of whether we think the Moral Majority has always said the right… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced...… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics.… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
“Essential political decisions are made not once, but again and again in a variety of situations, always against that pressure to compromise,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country. — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and… — Ralph Hall Copy Share Image
“Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the… — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
It's true that robust governance structures, checks and balances, transparency of markets, directionally leads to... less vulnerability to corruption. — Khalid A. Al-Falih Copy Share Image
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.” — George Rivorie Copy Share Image
“(Since this was, after all, a Canadian revolution, the former rebels were compensated by the Canadian government for their lost property.)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians. — Amado Boudou Copy Share Image
The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
We cannot defeat the deadly coronavirus, rebuild our economy, achieve social justice and repair our planet without choosing people over politics. — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image