politics

"Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our …"

"There is no way you can go through a mail-in vote without massive cheating."

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy."

"All parties without exception recognize us as a political power, and exactly in proportion to our power. Even the craziest reactionary that denies us the right of existence courts our favor and by his…"

"We lost the referendum vote but can still carry the political initiative. More importantly Scotland can still emerge as the real winner."

"The government’s mantra that “Zimbabwe is open for business” has proven to be a hollow epithet, as remains extremely low and local businesses continue to close shop in the face of a confidence deficit…"

"I have never asked for it, nor would I accept a pardon from President Trump."

"… Following these examples every responsible government should strive to remove those obstacles that hinder the progress of civilisation and should stimulate the growth of those economic forces that a…"

"In the late 1918 and early 1919, the primary challenge to the establishment of liberal democracy in Germany did not emanate from the right. It came from the left."

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"If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is."

"The government's priority remains the earliest termination of this hijacking and the earliest return of the passengers, crew and aircraft."

"But Cuba doesn’t have a dictatorship — it’s a revolutionary democracy."

"Upon fixing my residence at Lewes, I resolved to devote my leisure moments to the investigation of the "Organic remains of a former world"..."

"Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen."

"The blame rests with the government. Why do they not put adulterers to death? Then I would not need to give such advice. Between two evils one is always the lesser, in this case allowing the adulterer…"

"Mundell’s models allowed a significant role for fiscal policy, especially under fixed exchange rates. However, the treatment was entirely Keynesian—an increased budget deficit operated solely by raisi…"

"Our claim is that a common political project is possible. This possibility of course will have to be verified and realized in practice. … We are capable of democracy. The challange is to organize it p…"

"The Syrian crisis must be resolved by a vote by Syrians. We are concerned by the civil war and foreign interference. The government must be respected by other countries until the next elections and th…"

"...votes are to swords exactly what bank notes are to gold—the one is effective only because the other is believed to be behind it."