There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes… — Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey Copy Share Image
Look, the Democrats are obstructionists; that's all they can do is obstruct. They have no leadership. And we have to agree, and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
Oswald Mosley's movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything… — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
If you think of politics as 'serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,' which is the default mode of most… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is difficult to conduct flood mitigation at the federal level because of the bureaucracy and inconsistent funding. Texans are better able… — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
Waiver of farm loans is not an ideal solution. To ensure that the situation is not repeated, the government should focus on… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Politicians seldom if ever get [into public office] by merit alone, at least in democratic states. Sometimes, to be sure, it happens,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I think that the government has an obligation to monitor communications that could reveal a plot to murder millions of Americans. Monitoring… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Others Exonerated the plebs and threw the blame upon the patricians: it was owing to their artful canvassing that the plebeians found… — Titus Livy Copy Share Image
“You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
“Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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