I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In 2011, when I established the activist group Scholarism, I could have not imagined that a year later, 100,000 people would take… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
The good things of life do not fall from the skies. They can only come by hard work and over a long… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Constitutions are violated, and it would be absurd to expect the federal government to enforce the Constitution against itself. If the very… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Political editors were a truculent breed. Leggett’s boss, William Cullen Bryant, took a cowskin whip to William Leete Stone of the Commercial… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with… — Mencius Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Washington D.C., a town in which the largest industry is government and in which almost everyone I… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
China likes the idea of sovereign rights when it comes to organizing their politics as they see fit, and their economics. But… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“I could never feel like that about any public issue. Sometimes I wish I could. For me, if I'm honest, politics is… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
“Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and… — Christine Milne Copy Share Image
I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who… — Reginald McKenna Copy Share Image
My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
“And they were always young, Air Corps pilots and ensigns, and good-looking girls in fur coats, and always the government secretary or… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I believe that if you are a young person and you're not representative of your government - if you're a left-leaning person… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and… — Stanley Loomis Copy Share Image
The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image