politics

"President of India Online"

"To imitate the ostrich in political matters has never been a satisfactory method of avoiding danger; yet this is what Hitler, as well as his more important political, economic and even military advise…"

"...no Monarchy limited or unlimited, nor any of the old Republics, can possibly be safe as long as this strange, nameless, wild, enthusiastic thing is established in the Center of Europe."

"Revolution alone can "put an end" to the bourgeois state. The state in general, i.e., the most complete democracy, can only "wither away."

"Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic."

"I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!"

"Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?"

"It's hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it's next to impossible to get someone to think hard about why he's not interested in someth…"

"I have not said anything about politics today. I don't propose to say anything about politics. You have a right to elect whom you please; vote for the man you think best, and I think, when that is don…"

"Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me. We must meet as Americans, not as D…"

"When they criticise the government when it tries to prevent violence and punish perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang."

"I want government small enough to fit inside the Constitution."

"The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies."

"I, on the other hand, deny that the Constitution guarantees the right to hold property in man, and believe that the way to abolish slavery in America is to vote such men into power as well use their p…"

"I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have been sorely tempted to launch a militar…"

"The danger which threatened the natives in the future, at any rate in the mining districts, would arise from the desire to obtain a constant and cheap supply of native labour for the mines. It would b…"

"For 150 years, workers have struck over safety and health in myriad industries, most memorably in the twentieth century the miners’ strike over black lung. But we have not seen anything exactly like t…"

"A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means . It would be a means of universal suicide."

"There were security angles, political angles, personal angles—how many angles could dance on the head of a pin?"

"Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."