“The politician and the corporate executive alike aspire to power without responsibility, to a world in which both the customer and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
There's some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There's some criminals that work in the media. There's some criminals that are football… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
We need a modern people's lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda. Imagine voting for… — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
“Liberal political education now takes place, if it takes place at all, on campuses that are largely detached socially and geographically from… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It… — John Harrison Nichols Copy Share Image
When our Founders created this great experiment in self-governance, the House of Representatives became, by design, the body closest to the people.… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
“For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of… — John Morris Roberts Copy Share Image
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
“You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
“They looked at the world around them and saw that the government was a ball of wasteful red tape; that the taxi… — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
Development of a framework for the reporting of cyber incidents between government and industry is considered a priority. This includes the government… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“In every domain, from business and politics to science and art, the people who move the world forward with original ideas are… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees,… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The cool thing about Watchmen is it has this really complicated question that it asks, which is: who polices the police or… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image