Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Don't let a corrupt Media and Criminal Government continue to Brainwash You. THINK FOR YOURSELVES JAMAICANS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Politicians are like bananas when they first come in they're green, then they turn yellow, and finally they're rotten! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
“Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]” — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Political change does not really lead to any fundamental change for most of the people, indeed because politics (even if it calls… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and… — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts… — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send… — Barrett Brown Copy Share Image
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
You will always have politics being pushed towards multiracial politics because you have to field a team. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian government cannot accept a terrorist danger in… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless… — Jean Edward Smith Copy Share Image
We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government. — Franz von Papen Copy Share Image
The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people. — Ko Wen-je Copy Share Image
A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image