politics

"My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!"

"No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected."

"Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and comp…"

"I'm way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney."

"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute."

"Disappearances, assassinations, and extended prison sentences for opposition political figures and journalists, and the banning of opposition parties, have been regular features of a 20-year-long Kaga…"

"I take the judgement that when there is a deal on the table that has very, very modest costs to the economy, which will allow us to move on as a nation both economically and politically, I judge that …"

"The real guardians of progress are not the politicians at Westminster, or even at Holyrood, but the energised activism of tens of thousands of people who I predict will refuse meekly to go back into t…"

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"I thank you, in common with all others, who have thought fit, by their votes, to indorse the Republican cause. I rejoice with you in the success which has, so far, attended that cause. Yet in all our …"

"The Greeks never thought to unite all Greek speakers in one political union. Because each Greek gloried in his singular excellence—and each Greek clan gloried similarly—it was hard enough to unite a c…"

"Here at Focus on the Family, we're not political."

"‘The EU needs to transform itself into an association that countries like Britain would want to join, in order to strengthen the political case,’ Mr Soros said he was convinced it was the ideal time f…"

"Politics is not a self-enclosed activity, organically generating a body of concepts internal to it. What counts as a set of ideas with a bearing on the political conflicts of a time varies according t…"

"Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. I have argued elsewhere that the ascendancy of Christian conservatism in American politics should terrify and e…"

"One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare — a hobby more patient than angling."

"I found myself obliged, through perhaps unique circumstances, to devote myself to my mathematical research, almost without help, advice or even books... Endlessly occupied by a thousand different matt…"

"almost the only motive power of agitation. A violent political movement is generally only an indication that a class of those who have little see their way to getting more by means of a political conv…"

"Statement to young Japanese from the President of The Committee of 100 in Britain"

"IAR is policy, always has been."