What we're doing on 'The West Wing' is fictional. It's not a place to learn about politics or government. Has there ever… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“These days, everyone wants to get as much as they can for as little as they can. They want the government to… — Jodi McIsaac Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Bernie was their last chance. A politician who came so very close to the nomination and the levers of power that he… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“I can read and write in nine different languages, two of which are dead ones and two fictional ones. I can solve… — J.C. Mells Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics,… — David Frum Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through.… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“The reality is that Social Security is not a government handout. It is a benefit that is earned and paid for through… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
When a government is in fear of dissent from its own citizens, and when its reaction is to shut out that dissent,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Of course we've got to deliver Brexit; but then we've got to win a majority by appealing to aspirational people in the… — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
“Business idea: Merge a billiard table with a golf course, and make the pockets as deep as a typical politician's pants.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When Covid-19 came to America, a lot of people were concerned about their health and wishing there was a vaccine at that… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our… — Vellupillai Pirapakaran Copy Share Image
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The weather doesn't respect political or geographic boundaries: we're all living under the same sky. And so weather prediction has been a… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this. — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
