When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time. — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
I really didn't come from a political family. I didn't come from, like, a political world. It wasn't tribal for me. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“it is all very well to shut oneself away from politics, but if one feels that a real crime is being done,… — Jane Fletcher Geniesse Copy Share Image
It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it,… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
The reason that I decided to get into politics is because I have begged, pleaded, and cried for years for our government… — Paula Jean Swearengin Copy Share Image
No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government… — Rose Pastor Stokes Copy Share Image
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, like bureaucracies everywhere, government officials in Singapore are uncomfortable with groups who appeal successfully to the public's sense of idealism, and… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
The 'American Families Plan' is not about helping American families, it is about redefining what it means to be an American family… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
“And yet Trump was hardly dissuaded. His habit always was to quiz anyone and everyone about what they thought, whether or not… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers.… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
“How can a reformation of the whole people be brought about if it is common knowledge that the Church itself is bent… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about… — Tom McClintock Copy Share Image
Conservatives claim they are 'one nation' Tories when they have actually been a government for the 1% who have undermined our economic… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
I'm fed up with the top-down style of politics, where discussion in our party is stifled because of sectarianism and tribalism. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
“It was bad enough to see friendship and love in terms of politics. But seeing it in terms of business was even… — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to… — Joe Wilson Copy Share Image
What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to bestow gratitude upon your favorite (or least favorite) politician. Let them know your approval level by… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions. — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
