With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Unlike political Islamism, Arab nationalism has no major following on the Egyptian streets. Unlike liberal capitalism, it lacks the resources and the… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I believed that our democratic system of government was the best thing going. I was a flag-waver from way back. I… — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
“The Obama Administration has been trying to indoctrinate the public with its climate ideology in many ways and through a variety of… — Alan Carlin Copy Share Image
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“If a political party or a religious sect had even a fraction of the influence that the advertising industry has on us… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
“There’s a curious courage to them both: they believe in a political reality which is utterly terrifying, and they’re fighting it. Joe… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“The failure of India's public institutions to keep pace with the dramatic political, economic and social transformations under way has led to… — Milan Vaishnav Copy Share Image
If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
“The result is a dangerous lag between the natural sciences and the social sciences. The natural sciences and the technologies they spawn… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“Whenever a nation comes under a new form of government, the heroes of the past becomes the villains of the present. So… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns...If we want America to stay… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it,… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
“Policy makers and politicians want more STEM; educators want more STEAM. Both, in ways that are eerily similar, are engaging in social… — Henry Doss Copy Share Image
Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
“As historian Gary Ferguson writes, "while livestock may be the kindling, the real fuel for the burn is that the federal government… — William R. Lowry Copy Share Image
Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Regular people are the problem. It's not the government, it's not the invasive Big Brother, it's the fact that we're a nation… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she'd talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV. She… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
As a young woman in politics, it also gives me great pleasure to see additional female cabinet representation here today. You know,… — Michelle Rempel Copy Share Image
In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
