Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track. We'll support positive suggestions that we'll… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
“If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses. Without their hard work… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I do suppose what any political satire, what any political joke can count as a gaffe or a possible career-ending move. It… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
“quoting from Neil Kinnock, running against Thatcher in 1987: Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our government is a perfectly rational response to the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. This is a body based in The Hague where unaccountable judges, prosecutors, could pull our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For the same reason , the American government has invented a completely new juridical category , that of 'illegal enemy combatants'. In… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
“If you ever think you might want a career in politics, Inspector, think again. It's merely a continuous and mostly vain attempt… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because… — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“This busyness was not about money--despite the chic catalogs piled on the kitchen table. It was only marginally about good-heartedness or politics.… — Mary Sojourner Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“In seven counties it was necessary to issue search and seizure warrants or arrest warrants or both compelling colonial prothonotaries to turn… — Francis Fox Copy Share Image
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Apathy is dead. Show them the face of evil - Satanists lurking among us - running our governments, our banks, our schools,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“(Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
Trump's lawyers are right that if a president does what he honestly thinks is simultaneously in his personal electoral and the national… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
One fundamental issue which Trump did take advantage of was the increasing disparities of income in the United States. So many people… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
“Why the conservatives, who controlled all three branches of the federal government, were still so enraged--at respectful skeptics of the Iraq War,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
“The claimed legitimizing devices of political consent or personal labour served only to obscure the unjustifiable seizure of land from the common… — Peter Vallentyne Copy Share Image
Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In… — Lars Larson Copy Share Image
It does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating Donald Trump's finances or… — Matthew Whitaker Copy Share Image
“It is flawed by one thing: the abstraction of patriotism. People who will damn the government from morning till night, and oppose… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
“Communication is the continuation of business by other means. The business objective (or in the case of government or not-for-profit, the organizational… — Helio Fred Garcia Copy Share Image