politics

"State of the Union , 2004"

"I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit."

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

"This deeply alarming statistic points to one of the most pernicious aspects of the conduct our investigation uncovered: that these policing practices disproportionately harm African American residents…"

"It's quite a change to have a prime minister who hasn't got any political ideas at all."

"The community charge is a way of asking people to pay for what they vote for, and when they do, they will vote against Labour authorities."

"The American Enterprise Magazine"

"Good government can be no substitute for self-government."

"If the Igbos feel that things are best for them in a country of their own, why shouldn’t they have it? If after all we have been going through in Nigeria we feel that Biafra is best, we have every rig…"

"Conservatives used to care too much about values and republicanism to buy ends-justify-the-means logic. But it increasingly appears that political expedience now outweighs basic morality. At least one…"

"In places which are sacked and looted the captives are selected as per royal regulations. Those fit for royal service are sent to the court."

"I have devoted half my fortune and most of my energies in the last 15 years to promoting the values of democracy and open society all over the world, especially in the former Soviet Empire. After 9/11…"

"Governments don't protect you. They can't. All they can do is promise to make the person who hurts you pay for his crime — if they can catch him. The criminal won't pay you back, of course, so they pu…"

"In this province...we have...refugees coming in a state of mental excitement which enables the careerist politician to get hold of them and utilize them for various types of propaganda against the gov…"

"I am asking this movement to exert itself as it has never done before, to show the qualities which we have, the socialist imagination that exists in our movement, the readiness to reforge the alliance…"

"You could as soon as scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country."

"The Congress made an attempt to defame the entire country in the name of Hindu terror. This is a country where we feed even ants that bite us. They created a false case and booked sadhus and sadhvis. …"

"Do let us try to give a national, not a class tone to English politics ."

"Peasants and large landed proprietors recognise more and more that they form one and the same class, the class of land-owners, and follow one and the same industry of agriculture. ... The land-owners …"

"Who had used the mysterious September 11 incident as a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, killing, injuring and displacing millions of people. Whose military spending exceeded $1,000 billion doll…"