politics

"Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the Greater London Authority — official London government website"

"The key lesson about all structural political change is this: disruption works. Without disruption there is no economic cost, and without economic cost the guys running this world really don't care."

"It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it."

"In the end there is no escaping from the fact that businesses run business. And the best thing government can do is set a framework within which business has the stability to plan and invest in the fu…"

"Meher Baba's statements on Jesus"

"I have been espousing for transparency in government to curb graft and corruption. I filed this bill on waiver on bank secrecy in 2010 and continuously pursues this advocacy in the Senate."

"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views we…"

"Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!"

"When I was a young man, my father told me not to get into politics, because it was dirty, and would destroy me."

"Political power automatically gravitates toward the center, and the purpose of the Constitution is to prevent that from happening. The centralization of political power always destroys liberty by remo…"

"Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country."

"The time is coming that we have to abolish the concept of separation between church and state. We need a political party centered upon religious ideology. The world of democracy is based upon the ideo…"

"Selections from the Persian Ghazals of Ghalib, Anjuman-Tarraqi-e-Urdu, Karachi, 1997"

"government that can't tax ...is no government at all."

"... Property can exit only under the guardianship of the State."

"I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy — because we’re experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty…"

"A far smaller proportion of the population is in jail in Japan than in any Western country - around a twentieth of that in the United States. Evidently the Japanese have yet to embrace Western values."

"What kind of political order, then, is taking shape in Europe, 15 years after Maastricht? The pioneers of European integration – Monnet and his fellow spirits – envisaged the eventual creation of a fe…"

"The Politics of Glenn Jacobs"

"Everyone wants to kill me! The Americans want to kill me, the Shiites want to kill me, the Kurds want to kill me and even the insurgents. . . . Every night a different car passes by my house."