politics

"U.S. Congressman Pete Stark official U.S. House website"

"It is a political axiom that power follows property."

"L'occhio del ciclone - In the Electric Mist"

"Technically, Reconstruction was "over" when the last of the Confederate states had written new state constitutions and elected representatives and senators in conformity with the Reconstruction Acts. …"

"I see the Orange boys are playing the Devil in Ireland. I have no doubt it is the work of the Government. Please God, if I get safe into that country, I will settle those gentlemen, and their instigat…"

"You have seized upon the most important of our social and political questions in the laws affecting the transfer of land. It is astonishing that the people at large are so tacit in their submission to…"

"I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country."

"Ibn Warraq is the pen-name of the author whose parents emigrated from India to Pakistan as a result of the Partition. He was brought up in Pakistan, which was supposed to be an Islamic Republic. His e…"

"The spirit of our age is fraught with paradox. It is at the same time pragmatic and transcendental. It values both enlightenment and mystery... power and humility ... interdependence and individuality…"

"The referendum vote will be honoured and we will come out of the EU next spring"

"——Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy"

"Graves: Now…why would the elders of Zion in their protocols of world domination devote so much time to the ‘’’mundane’’’ details of financial management??"

"Morality, like politics, is the alternative to chaos and war."

"I wasn't tempted to vote for Bush, but I understand why people did… because he obviously had integrity. It was a terrible kind of integrity, but he does what he says and he means what he says. And wha…"

"When I talk about energy, I am talking about jobs. Our American economy runs on energy. No energy—no jobs."

"Our republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue …"

"In political institutions, almost everything we call an abuse was once a remedy."

"How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?"

"Statesmen remember things selectively."

"Reference to the conditions that have developed in Russia and Hungary under Soviet rule proves nothing. What we have there is nothing but a picture of the destruction of an existing order of social pr…"