politics

"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."

"Donald Trump is an embarrassment. It would be better for the country if he were president for at most one term."

"Working in the government nowadays, you can only get things done if you have the determination to go against the prevailing trend."

"It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations."

"Why are Indo-Fijians supposed to be good at managing businesses but are not to be allowed to manage the biggest business of all, the government of the country? Why? Oh why?"

"If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy."

"National Press Club Audio and transcript from 2000 appearance"

"The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who have and toil not, and solve forever the problems of democracy."

"America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government."

"I dream of helping liberate my homeland from this transient medieval system of clerical rule. It is the Iranian people whose dream and decision will determine the final form of our future constitution…"

"Plebeians have in every period been treated as mere means, Their mute part is that of serfs, cannon-fodder, wage-slaves, ‘hands’, political tools as mobs or ‘votes’, economic puppets as potential cons…"

"Among those who voted Brexit, there is still support for Parliament and its traditional sovereignty, for the monarchy, for the NHS, and for the Union. As the Copeland by-election showed, they prefer t…"

"Government doesn’t often move quickly, but when they do, it’s like an elephant stampede."

"Political dissent begins with the vaguest feeling that something is wrong and a lot of people have that feeling but the problem with vague feelings is they can be channeled in any direction. The same …"

"When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine'."

"This doctrine found wide acceptance among the nonconformist clergy who later made up the Congregational Church. The great apostle of this movement was the Reverend John Wise, of Massachusetts. He was …"

"Wyclif's Political Thought"

"I bear no malice towards anyone, be it my jailer or the magistrate who sent me in or my political opponent. I do not hate or despite anyone."

"ligarchy, strictly speaking, is a regime "in which a rich minority rules for the advantage of the rich minority and in which the people composing that political society are ranked...because the ruling…"

"Andrew Yarranton, Gentlemen was the founder of English political economy, the first man in England who saw and said that peace was better than war, that trade was better than plunder, that honest indu…"