My government currently runs things only because the people 'allow' them to run things. It is my responsibility that I do everything… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with… — Betsy Hodges Copy Share Image
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
“I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great command, must begin his government… — William Reynolds Copy Share Image
Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government,… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
“During all that time I didn't see Willie. I didn't see him again until he announced in the Democratic primary in 1930.… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Every time I'm on the red carpet and they ask,'Who's the mother going to be? I always say Hillary Clinton as a… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
“A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“New Rule: It's okay for the president to play ball in the house. It's easy to judge and say this scene detracts… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“— I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest.… — Jason Stearns Copy Share Image
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of… — Arleigh Burke Copy Share Image
“As the American colonies moved toward declaring independence from Great Britain, the Scots -Irish were all but unanimous in their desire to… — James Webb Copy Share Image
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“I remember the late Admiral Saunders declaring in the House of Commons, and that in the time of peace, 'That the city… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“It is the occupation of politicians to deny this ubiquity, nay, universality of corroded hearts, to discount the barren laboriousness of all… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In Harlem the government pushes heroin to keep the blacks down and doctors by the thousands give barbiturates and tranquilizers to all… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Many sportsmen, like myself and my team-mates, artists, and musicians all have unique chances and responsibilities to make themselves heard. We have… — Kevin-Prince Boateng Copy Share Image
“It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“But whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
“above all, Locke’s transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
