The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization,… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“When Americans think of freedom, we usually imagine a contest between a lone individual and a powerful government. We tend to conclude… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history,… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the… — Howard Brenton Copy Share Image
My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based,… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I am an economist, a liberal libertarian economist, who has never had the ambition to be a politician and who was who… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Freedom of movement in Europe has been all but abandoned as a cause in British politics. Brexit was far more about freedom… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
“Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I think that we are right now - the society - is living in the Facebook era and the political system is… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution,… — Benjamin Franklin Fairless Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“She told Everra that he had given her and Sallo the soul's hunger for books and thoughts, and must not deprive them… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
That's not how politics works - sometimes things move in a rather imperceptible way. There are no fireworks, and then comes a… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn in government is there's a long tail to American decision-making when it comes to foreign policy.… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Neither Obama nor Romney will be able to 'heal' our 'pockets' during the next four years. The only thing I'm sure about… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
