Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“the confluence of racial prejudice and conservative politics is the new racism. It’s a product of almost a half-century of ethnic discourse… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The effect of education on political attitudes is complicated, for democratic society. The self-professed aim of modern education is to "liberate" people… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“We’re loyal servants of the U.S. government. But Afghanistan involves fighting behind enemy lines. Never mind we were invited into a democratic… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
We are committed to keeping the Internet open and free, and we are now advocating for the federal government to make subsidies… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and… — Jean Bethke Elshtain Copy Share Image
Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write… — Jeff Barry Copy Share Image
If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where… — Mario Draghi Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“But my experience in this world has been that the people who believe themselves to be white are obsessed with the politics… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their… — George Will Copy Share Image
Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily a brave thing, people talk about what they think about. There's people out there who love to talk about… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Politicians live on lies and promises - but those promises are never fulfilled. Their only quality is that they can manage to… — OSHO Copy Share Image