politics

"If you look closely, you'll see that the political journalists actually more belong to the political class and less to journalism."

"That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience."

"Politics quarantines one from history; most of the people who nourish themselves in the political life are in the game not to make history but to be diverted from the history which is being made."

"He is the only man...who has any political sense. Go and listen to him one day."

"Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for."

"President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics."

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."

"... the most fundamental problem of politics, which is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness."

"I’m becoming daily more and more misanthropic and misogynous…nothing worthwhile, good or useful to do… no one to devote myself to. My situation makes me horridly sad and wretched. Even musical product…"

"Markets work most efficiently and the economy of a country develops best when the price and merits of products and services are the criteria that determine buying and selling—not secret payments to we…"

"A foreign oil industry consisting mainly of private multinational companies competing in open markets has unique values to the Western World. Profit-motivated firms have proven to be better adapted to…"

"George Friedman at Geopolitical Futures"

"None of my characters operate in a vacuum. You rarely see these tidy domestic dramas, mostly because of my own interest in a broader stage. I’m always interested in seeing how political events are sha…"

"For many on the American left and right, the "Arab Spring" has become the "Arab Winter" of triumphant fundamentalists... But Westerners should resist nostalgia and depression. Given the awfulness of p…"

"I then went on to suggest that we make a serious effort to gauge the demand over the next five to ten years, and make plans to meet that demand. In building new facilities, I suggested that we "use co…"

"2015,The Citizen,A star named tiffany,March,20,2015"

"If not by design at least by default; reflexively if not intentionally, government operatives work to retain their positions and increase their sphere of influence."

"I don't suppose there is a country in the world where a playwright has such a tremendous field for modesty as Canada."

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."