“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system;… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity,… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“While there remains such an idea as the right of each State to control its own local affairs,—an idea, by the way,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“You need to change hearts and change laws. Although I never imagined running for office myself, I came to see partisan politics… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us… — Brian Switek Copy Share Image
“certainly influence the future course of cryptocurrencies, which we take up in chapter 14; governments everywhere are facing the question of how… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
The idea of dual sovereignty rests on the premise that the power of the states to prosecute crimes existed before the creation… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
“Results are their own propaganda. The vast majority of the people are free, prosperous, and safe under the Phoenix Society's rule. They… — Matthew Graybosch Copy Share Image
“To a Soviet person, used to the nationality policy of the USSR, all the mistakes of the American government's Indian policy are… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama is the only popular politician left in the world. He would win an election in any one of the G-20… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I was drawn to the ethos of WP, which believes in building a strong and reasonable opposition that contributes to our political… — Nicole Seah Copy Share Image
We live in a time of such great distrust in government, and I really do think that that poses a deep, deep… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
Our values are precious: the freedom to elect or kick out a government; the freedom to worship in different places; and the… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
“Očevidno je da ne postoji nikakav smisao povijesti koji bi se dao spasiti leđima okrenutim prema Auschwitzu niti postoji Bog kojemu se… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
Either we're removing a dictator who currently has plans to fund terrorism against American citizens or -- if Bush is completely wrong… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can… — Barak Obama Copy Share Image
Even though I grew up in an area of England that was more conservative than my personal politics and my family's personal… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image