“Political awareness without activism means looking at the devastation, your face turned toward the center of things. Activism can generate hope because… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family -- whether… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
I believe that the federal government should respect the freedoms that Canadians enjoy to have different beliefs and that by imposing personal… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense,… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We understand the forked tongue that our grandfathers talked about. [...] We know all the tricks of the wasicu world. Our young… — Nick Estes Copy Share Image
A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process.… — Marwan al-Muasher Copy Share Image
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Instead of the concrete individual, you have the names of organizations and, at the highest point, the abstract idea of the State… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I made a promise to Michael Brown's parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
In a climate where much of foreign policy is a direct function of domestic politics, focusing on what one doesn't want is… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“the rich and powerful are always taken care of. This corruption is turning government into a tool of those who have already… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of politicians,’ he said: ‘insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When technology is mobile, and transactions occur in cyberspace, as they increasingly will do, governments will no longer be able to charge… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system.… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border.… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image