politics

"To govern well, one must see things as they are."

"By backing a people's vote, by backing remain, I am sure we can deliver the Labour government the people of this country so badly need,"

"To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament — this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentar…"

"Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish…"

"There never can be a convention... that shall bind my vote against my will on any question whatever."

"It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, …"

"Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!"

"Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon go…"

"Whichever form of government that democracy will create in the future, the great American experiment will go down in history as the freest and the bravest in the land of the free and the home of the b…"

"The misfortune is not alone that it rends the concord of nations. The greater pity is that it rends the concord of our citizenship at home. It's folly to think of blending Greek and Bulgar, Italian an…"

"American Masters : Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home"

"The U.S. does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so."

"If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights a…"

"He was publicly lamenting that he was to be taken before a war crimes court and executed on an electric chair. The people who voted me against him have prevented that"

"No abuse of power has so tarnished the corporate image or shown the need for government legislation as the numerous public revelations of wholesale political and foreign bribery that came to light dur…"

"International bibliography of Philip José Farmer"

"Nations appeared, and all the phobias that make up nationalism."

"tate and local governments alone spend at least $70 billion a year of taxpayer's money to subsidize factories, office buildings ... $900 per year for a family of four."

"In a democracy, all voters are equal but not all are responsible. Compulsory voting ignores that elemental truth."

"James Blunt - a man who recently got voted more annoying than paper cuts."