If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
“I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I do think there's a great deal of politics mixed in rap. Their reference to the real world is much better than… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying 'we support you' and then walking away. We won't be satisfied until… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“In California, after weeks of meeting transported Americans from practically every state in the Union, I announced to Kareem that I liked… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight—start a fight, even if you do not… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The government and the mining companies are digging away in villages, virgin forests, pure rivers, and the very values of equality and… — Josy Joseph Copy Share Image
“Voters—here’s the real challenge: we don’t need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or… — Lee Ellis Copy Share Image
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The times do not call for grassroots political activism, as if the next election might be enough to reverse a massive cultural… — Paul D. Miller Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think it's funny that nobody wants to be liked by Washington. All the politicians go, 'I don't like Washington. They don't… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
'Free Solo' has got nothing to do with politics, so to speak, but why are audiences responding to it in the degree… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“Our certitude and vehemence in political argument are way out of proportion to our knowledge...In politics, everybody is always very sure that… — Guillermo Jimenez Copy Share Image
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Labour has lots of groups of people, whether it's public sector workers, nurses and so on who will push their policies out… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
“For some politics has become a battle ground that allows them to vent their frustrations, while at the same time hide behind… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
