Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything,… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“The political benefactors are considered 'religious' heroes. They have statues and a place in the temple, and sacrifices are made in their… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“These days law thinks it's about nothin' but laws. Law don't remember it was once handed down from somewhere, that it once… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Death to the attacker was a yardstick of success, to the media person and the government, was a mere statistic. But to… — Kirthi Jayakumar Copy Share Image
“the overzealous institutionalization of social relationships, which comes along with the increasing formalization and physical and numerical growth of modern settlements and… — Aleksandar Fatic Copy Share Image
While visiting Kenya, former President Clinton was offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter, Chelsea, by a love struck government… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings;… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“Now we Democrats, well, we’re all for higher taxes, right? But man do we hate to pay those taxes, and most of… — D.W. Ulsterman Copy Share Image
“In your roughest time, when everything looks so cloudy and deserted, don't look to man, don't look to a woman, don't look… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics.… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
For sure I would prefer Trump had not withdrawn from the Paris Agreement. But the fight against climate change is really done… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“The basic unit of society is the family. No one comes into this world as a self-sufficient individual. We start out as… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of… — Eduard Shevardnadze Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
And for government and a bunch of men in government, frankly, to get between a woman and her provider is downright dangerous,… — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a… — David Hare Copy Share Image
“There is also the wider fact that politics more generally operates for some people as a secular religion—especially politics dictated by a… — Mary Eberstadt Copy Share Image
