Absence Quote by Elena Kagan

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

— Oswald Mosley

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into…

— George Carlin

“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible.…

— Leah Hager Cohen

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

— Edward de Bono

Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and…

— Ludwig von Mises

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long -…

— Richard M. Nixon

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and…

— William J. Brennan

Ideas are meaningless without action. Everyone has ideas. To succeed, make your ideas real. Make them happen.

— Anonymous

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those…

— John Conyers

“Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited,…

— William J. Brennan

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

— John Maynard Keynes

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

— Steve Allen