politics

"Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse."

"I believe that we cannot survive as a democratic country when we are supporting someone like Thieu in Saigon, who has put 300,000 political prisoners in jail because they've spoken in favor of peace. …"

"International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation"

"On many issues — naming Scalia-like judges and backing Reagan-like tax cuts — President Trump is a conventional Republican. Where he was exceptional in 2016, where he stood out starkly from his GOP ri…"

"One could argue that Lenin’s politics were the first modern-day version of fascism and state-corporatism."

"The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go v…"

"Leo X to Frederic, Elector of Saxony"

"Turkmenistan has always welcomed the expansion of relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in all areas, and our independent policy in the world is conducive to the expansion of relations and coope…"

"I have already made the case... that it is now right to demand that any deal is put to a public vote"

"A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."

"In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a ha…"

"Politicians are always trying to make you believe that they’re good, moral, consistent. Don’t ever fall in their trap. There’s no such thing as a good, moral, consistent politi­ cian. Politics is give…"

"Entry on Vachel Lindsay from Anthology of Modern American Poetry"

"It was evident to Elias Tate that this was the government. First they shake hands with you, he thought, and then they murder you."

"Public administration as an American profession originated in the early twentieth century with urban reformers advocating the application of scientific and business practices to rehabilitate corrupt c…"

"This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States."

"Save me from that! To pour your life into sons for eighteen or twenty years, and then have the government take them away and waste them cleaning up after some failure of politics—no thanks."

"You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you."

"A "Presidential" system of government, somewhat akin to that practiced in the United States, would correspond more closely to the requirements of an Islamic polity than a "Parliamentary" government in…"

"I am convinced that sooner or later the Armenian-Turkish relations will be normalized since closed borders between States is a non-sense in the 21st century, and rulers can find themselves in an unenv…"