politics

"Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector."

"If nothing is done to counter present trends, the major fault line in American politics will no longer be between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives. It will be between the 'establi…"

"The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of para…"

"The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"So why is Japan different? Why do its top officials – and this trend extends across senior government posts – resign office, seemingly at the drop of a hat? The theories are endless, most of them rely…"

"I call for calm and good sense, maximum consciousness and maximum popular mobilisation to defend the homeland, democracy, and the Constitution"

"Every American should take note of those candidates who stand with the economic interests of America’s citizens, and who stand with the Rule of Law, by rejecting Amnesty in all its forms. It is wrong …"

"In South America, the US government worked with the archipelago of military juntas from Argentina to Paraguay to abduct, torture, and murder Communists in the continent. This programme, which ran from…"

"I was not able to fight my way through, as they were both involved in it. I told Modi what the CBI had found , and what the Supreme Court's ruling was . The CBI had asked the state government to take …"

"What is the third estate?"

"A world view which supports matches our government’s interests. If Trump’s people are more disgusted by than they are by Jews , we have struck quite a good deal. Trump and his friends see Israel as a …"

"Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm."

"George, if you deport the police from America, you get Mexico."

"The art of government has grown from its seeds in the tiny city-states of Greece to become the political mode of half the world. So let us dream of a world in which all states, great and small, work t…"

"For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it."

"This is a Government of to-morrow. ... It is all swagger and pose, and no action. Let it be done. No, he cannot do it, he is too busy doing other things. Russia must come first. No time to carry schem…"

"Vote for Ralph Nader!", Salon"

"It was not a vote for Hohmann or against Merkel - it was a vote for an open society."

"In the Labour movement they said they would have no truck with coalition, but if Britain stayed in the EEC then for decades to come they would be enmeshed in various forms of coalition government than…"

"I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in."