politics

"They have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the Treasury; and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beat…"

"Special Synoptique Dossier devoted to Sontag's film criticism, edited by Colin Burnett"

"Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

"When South Africa was governed by a racist white minority, it was scorned by the West and treated as Saddam Hussein was, with boycotts and sanctions. Now that a racist, black-majority government contr…"

"To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern."

"The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smoo…"

"Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money."

"We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what …"

"...that new spirit which is passing from municipal into Imperial politics, which aims more at the improvement of the lot of the worker and the toiler than at those great constitutional effects in whic…"

"As I plodded back and forth I reflected miserably upon my own political rootlessness, in a world where politics is so important. When I am with Tories I am a violent advocate of reform; when I am with…"

"Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government."

"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."

"Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."

"The death knell of your ethics has been enabled by your parent organizations who have chosen to align themselves with political agendas. What is clear to me is that you are perpetuating the corrosive …"

"I had always assumed that if I made it to Parliament I would not remain a back bencher."

"Triteness of content has not necessarily hurt ideologies in the past. There are very few original or profound ideologies on the political scene."

"If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruitin…"

"Our struggle for democracy has been carried out with a strong grasp on the principle of nonviolence. And also, we believe in the rule of law. So if you ask how do we propose to resolve all of these pr…"

"Paternalism and centralism, the bane of capitalist as well as socialist politics, are for me the permanent enemy of democracy."

"Democracy is not for Africa. There was only one African chief and here in Zaire we must make unity."