“Stories can make us remember—or forget—who we are. They have the power to topple governments or build empires. They are the life… — Laura Burroughs Copy Share Image
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity… — Gerald Warner Copy Share Image
In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
“The herd is the larger mass, the mindless portion that wanders off the cliff; the mob is the subset and the moshpit… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense,… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
“We understand the forked tongue that our grandfathers talked about. [...] We know all the tricks of the wasicu world. Our young… — Nick Estes Copy Share Image
A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process.… — Marwan al-Muasher Copy Share Image
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“You've got to stop and ask yourself once in a while...why some asinine politicians would quicker cut out social security than the… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We as the American people have to hold ourselves accountable because we didn't hold our government accountable. — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the… — Gordon Donaldson Copy Share Image
In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society. — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself.… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace,… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image