Lula's political culture translated into a government project that sought to include the poor in the budget with minimal efforts in terms… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
What are the policy implications of the government and this fantasy Islam, what are the policy implications of a United States government… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
“The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The Obama administration, from the perspective of people like me, a government employee, is one of the worst. The people of this… — Tuvia Tenenbom Copy Share Image
The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
“In many instances, politics was the cover for personal vendetta and family feud. Most of the right-wing terror was directed against those… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
“A vast nonprofit-industrial complex and elite racial leadership class has arisen since the 1960s to define the parameters of acceptable political action… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunate to feel a sentiment of despair in your own country, like having a doomed love affair and you know… — Mireille Saba Redford Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“Though churches may lose political influence under Christian states or in predominantly Christian societies, though they might be secularized, they do not… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Is there some reason why the quality of people going into the parliament is not as high? I don't know the complete… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
“This renewed politics of otherness not only allowed entire categories of poor whites to develop a powerful sense of racial belonging, but… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare… — Peter Friedman Copy Share Image
We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
My father taught me many things. Two of them come to mind right now: Stay true to your values. You can compromise… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Canadians expect their government to make sure we're helping the people who need the help and growing the economy, and that's exactly… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Our political document shows that we are prepared in the context of a national consensus to accept a state on the lines… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were… — Robert McFarlane Copy Share Image
There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
I spent my older teen years holding my tongue while my Hollywood coworkers gushed about big government, attacked anyone to the Right… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image