Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination. — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a desire to have power over another person, it is politics. Power is always political, even on small children.… — Osho Copy Share Image
The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess,… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.” — Jeffrey Friedland Copy Share Image
Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope. — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people… — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to… — Chuck Fleischmann Copy Share Image
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Obviously the federal government has the ability and the right to have their currency and to create the kind of policy that… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
“A fool will always rely on what someone else says, however an intelligent person would use critical thinking to justify the rationality… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do worry that organizations and even governments who own AI and data will have a competitive advantage and power, and those… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social… — Mora Stephens Copy Share Image
“We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands… — James Ellis Copy Share Image