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We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of…

— Paul Ryan

“We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.”

— Susan Cain

“Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper…

— Seymour Martin Lipset

“...what we are looking for is the appearance of political units persisting in time and fixed in space, the development of permanent, impersonal institutions,…

— Joseph Reese Strayer

While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more…

— Calvin Coolidge

“At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.”

— Walter Isaacson

“The political institutions of a society are a key determinant of the outcome of this game. They are the rules that govern incentives in…

— Daron Acemoğlu

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of…

— Paul Wellstone

“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.”

— Jon Meacham

“In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally…

— Larry M. Bartels

“The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the…

— Johann Herder

“The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own…

— Michel Foucault