Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
I know other astronauts share my feelings… And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs. — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals?… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues. — Judy Horacek Copy Share Image
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Some will say it isn't the government's job to manage who people meet and interact with, but there is clearly a lot… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“So we passed, hand-cuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington through the Capital of a nation, whose theory of government,… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in what the public thinks. My fight is in the courts. And while I have been fighting with the… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country… — Steven Hatfill Copy Share Image
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are… — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity… — Alex Salmond Copy Share Image
America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
“Hardly anybody tells the truth these days. For the truth I have to go to Washington DC, and whatever a politician says,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
[The government involvement in the economy] is so overwhelming and beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this country… — Tom J. Donohue Copy Share Image
Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while… — Andy Sawford Copy Share Image
Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how… — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
America is - and will always be - a success story. We have African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and members of other… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
We know the problems… and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
People feel overwhelmed by the news cycle, and by this nagging feeling that the kind of vitriol out of Washington is just… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
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