politics

"not Vietnam, we have a government that has a support of the majority of the people."

"Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect."

"The government is trying to run down the clock in an attempt to blackmail this House and the country into supporting a botched deal"

"We're subsidizing Tyco and through the burglar alarm subsidy... while starving our parks and recreation programs; and what do we get in the big cities because we've starved those programs? Youth gangs…"

"He has got a lot to do to pull the country out of the mess that Mr V.P.Singh government had plunged it into."

"Keynes's politics of the Middle Way in the 1920s can be interpreted in two senses. It can be seen as an expression of an Aristotelian sense of balance, with both nineteenth-century individualism and t…"

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"With humble duty, I wish to submit to you the following advice, acting in my capacity as your representative in Fiji. Owing to the uncertainty of the political and constitutional situation in Fiji, I …"

"I never was. When I left the hospital I was still in America and all America is an insane asylum."

"The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs."

"Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has declared the lifting of sanctions on the country as his top priority — even as he also insists that he won’t budge an inch from the Islamic Republic’s positio…"

"One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, …"

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucra…"

"The growth of government is like the spread of a dense jungle, and the average citizen can hack through less of it every year."

"The balance of political power at any given moment is determined under the influences of fundamental and secondary factors of differing degrees of effectiveness, and only in its fundamental quality is…"

"Mr. Reagan came along and said, "Are you better off? ...Government is the problem," and persuaded people who were faced with problems... We had two oil shocks, '73 and '79, we had long lines at gas st…"

"Democracy is a competitive political system in which competing leaders and organizations define the alternatives of public policy in such a way that the public can participate in the decision-making p…"

"said they would have to make up their minds whether they were going to give the Indians what they wanted, or handle the situation. The trouble was that, although the Englishman talked about handling t…"

"Let politicians deal with politics. I will put effort into enhancing the dialogue between the Turkish and Armenian peoples."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."