politics

"Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters."

"No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline. Of all forms of government, those administered by bureaus are about …"

"Now, I don’t mean to sell Donald Trump short in any way. Give that former reality TV star credit. Unlike either Hillary Clinton or any of his Republican opponents in the 2016 election campaign, he sen…"

"The government must remove clearly, once and for all, the prospect of the catastrophe of a no-deal exit from the EU and all the chaos that would come as a result of that"

"The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this — it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity."

"It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa."

"Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction."

"If one recalls the tactless declaration of President Bush about supporting Ukrainian sovereignty even before the referendum on that matter, one must conclude that all this stems from a common aim: to …"

"After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society."

"Since its emergence on the international scene, the PLO has always distinguished between Zionists and Jews."

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of wi…"

"It is, as a rule, far more important how men pursue their occupation than what the occupation is which they select."

"Now the maximum of perfection is called ideal, by Plato, Idea — for instance, his Idea of a Republic — and is the principle of all that is contained under the general notion of any perfection, inasmuc…"

"Roadside America review of Grissom Museum"

"They screwed with democracy. I’m not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back."

"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."

"There was no middle state. A man must be of the highest rank or live miserably."

"As a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, your most important intervention was in suggesting that before investigating corruption allegations against senior officers, the CBI should get approval from …"

"The enemies will be asking reasonable questions, like Isn't politics the way matters are really decided, and isn't the rational systems approach simply one political device, to be used when politicall…"

"Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?"