“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of… — Robert Nandor Berki Copy Share Image
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The German experience brings us face to face with the major problem of the revolution in Western Europe. In these countries, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
“Constitutionalism as a guiding political tendency will require careful and thoughtful development, as did jurisprudential originalism. But its wide appeal and philosophical… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Commons People takes a look at the day-to-day lives of our MPs, examining what motivates them, who inspires them, what they do… — Tony Russell Copy Share Image
Naming a street in Washington, D.C., after Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy advocate and journalist standing up for human rights in Hong Kong,… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics.… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Tis useful nonetheless, now and then, to regard Politics here, as the greater American Question in Miniature,— in the way that Chess… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
The paramount problem... is how to make this new form of property ownership a workable agent toward repeopleizing the proprietorship of the… — Peter S. Grosscup Copy Share Image
“Leave wasn’t an alternate economic or political model. It was a blank canvas which people could project their hopes, aspirations and frustrations… — Ian Dunt Copy Share Image
Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements… — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“But it is not necessarily the case that liberal democracy is the political system best suited to resolving social conflicts per se.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door.… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
While working on the Obama campaign as the southern political director, I had become used to long hours and the incredibly fast-paced… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if… — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image