politics

"The pain is legit. But Trump is a stupid vote. Because Trump won't solve any of those things, he'll make them all worse. You're voting against your pain. You're voting to create more. You're going for…"

"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."

"And so, Venezuela becomes a geopolitical battlefield. The country with the largest oil reserves on the planet."

"The key to efficiency, for the New Class, was to remove as much of life as possible from the domain of "politics" and to place it under the control of competent authorities. "Democracy" was recast as …"

"Milan Kundera and the Czech Republic"

"Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians."

"If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out."

"The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them wherever need of such control is sh…"

"I am amused to find the fuss our Darlington friends and relatives are making about the Education Bill. Edward Pease, John Pease, etc., all attending a public meeting, making speeches, moving resolutio…"

"Finally, I believe in an America with a government of men devoted solely to the public interests — men of ability and dedication, free from conflict or corruption or other commitment — a responsible g…"

"Things should be so fixed in government, that there should be neither degrading checks, nor alluring baits to the ministry. … In some of the states, the property of preachers is free from tax. In Virg…"

"He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashionable, but he followed it unhesitatingly; in fact it was an obsession. He could not …"

"Biographical profile at US Congress"

"South Carolina led the southern walk-out from the 1948 Democratic National Convention."

"If the Trump campaign, or anybody associated with it, aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of our democracy i…"

"How to break the Internet, destroy democracy and enslave the human race " Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband"

"We may add that the Poland of the fifteenth century was one of the most civilised states of Europe."

"The framers of the American Constitution were far from wishing or intending to found a democracy in the strict sense of the word, though, as was inevitable, every expansion of the scheme of government…"

"I told Mr Downer that I was disappointed with his comments and said that we should stay out of politics. I told him his country has not experienced a coup to feel what the military went through here. …"

"The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," he said. "Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad."