In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
“But of course it makes sense because we are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, ' Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics,… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and… — George Noory Copy Share Image
If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“Over the course of the last three decades, however, barriers to power have weakened at a very fast pace. They are now… — Moisés Naím Copy Share Image
The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The politics of resentment against other people will not just leave the Republican Party a fractured party. They're going to leave us… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with… — John Dunn Copy Share Image
There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I loved her,”I said. I did not say I loved her because she was good to my cousin Abel, good to me,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation.… — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I know that we think far otherwise, and hold them most part wise men that are in authority, princes, magistrates,{185} rich men,… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image