politics

"Ernst Toller reported that a fellow-prisoner also interned for involvement in the Räterepublik had met Hitler in a Munich barracks during the first months after the revolution, and that the latter had…"

"I never bought into the Laffer curve, a theory, named after an American supply-side economist who had been an adviser to the Reagan administration, that essentially argues that a government will incre…"

"“Political Misfits are as dangerous as Quislings."

"Democracy has no place for the kind of justice implied in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Democracy is a system for the resolution of conflict, not for vengeance. Simple black-white notions…"

"Already the elections of the year 1929 brought us a great influx from the Marxist camp. In Berlin alone, we managed in the municipal elections in November 1929 to snatch from the Reds of both colors n…"

"Unions are inherently un-American."

"Ba'athism died in Iraq last week. The sight of the oversized bronze head of Saddam rolling in the dust and being beaten with shoes by exuberant Iraqis is perhaps the most important image of Iraqi poli…"

"Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state."

"He has made it quite plain over the weekend—as has another miners' leader—that the object of what they are doing is not a wage negotiation...Its purpose is...to get rid of the elected government of th…"

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences."

"I'm for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well."

"There is enormous inertia—a tyranny of the status quo—in private and especially governmental arrangements. Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions …"

"India supported the government of Sri Lanka in another UN resolution in Geneva two years back. So for India having changed its mind this time, there may have been some justifiable reasons. India has b…"

"The Department has noted with considerable apprehension increasing propaganda rumors and semi-official statements in favor of an autonomous Macedonia emanating from Bulgaria, but also from Yugoslav pa…"

"We still want to have a People's Vote. We've been arguing for that for the last three-and-a-half years - the Brexit deal to the public in a referendum. when we have an election, if we haven't had a Pe…"

"Some Tories have tried to make political capital by demonising minorities instead of showing confidence in all the citizens of our country."

"The second most corrupt head of government ever ."

"When I talk to people about how to design a carbon price, I think the model is British Columbia. You raise electricity prices by $100 a year, but then the government gives back a dividend that lowers …"

"If the American people are not fit for popular government, and if they should of right be the servants and not the masters of those whom they themselves put in office, then Lincoln's work was wasted a…"

"We need to have the phone lines melted this week. We need people to melt the phone lines. Not to the House members, you don't need to call them, and you don't need to call the Republican Senators. It'…"