“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Politics is a game of great patience. A woman has to hold her ground and maintain dignity, holding her head high. — Nagma Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property without just compensation. The basic model of an unconstitutional aking would… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.” — Machiavelli Niccolo Copy Share Image
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“One word: power. The more politicians can control your access to your own wealth and earnings, the more powerful they are. The… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“Words unconsciously shift thoughts and feelings. One person's 'terrorist' is another's 'freedom fighter'; politicians jockey to commandeer 'family values,' and somehow you… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Because our government has been so incompetent at protecting its highly sophisticated cyberweapons, those weapons have been stolen out of the electronic… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He is as ominous as anything I imagined a government agent could be like. He wears a dark suit with a darker… — Jonas Lee Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“This peaceful infiltration of barbarians which altered the whole character of the society which it invaded would have been impossible, of course,… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
My hope and my intention was that people would experience the tragedy of what Chernobyl was in every regard: a scientific tragedy,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children's lives. — David Hogg Copy Share Image
History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them. — Hector Ruiz Copy Share Image
The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
