politics

"If we are to prevent this climactic danger from working its worst, we will simply all have to work together, and for a long time. The principle obstacle is, of course, inertia, resistance to change—hu…"

"Demilitarized Palestinian State" at the Reut Institute"

"Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It is not denial of the divine right of kings; it supplements that same with the assertion of the divine right of all men. It does not destroy; it…"

"Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class."

"The central problem with Chicago's ordinance is that it describes permissible picketing in terms of its subject matter. Peaceful picketing on the subject of a school's labor-management dispute is perm…"

"Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it."

"My job is to assist the common people, I do politics for the people, not for me ... People are enjoying democracy now."

"147, on the situation in Greece: "imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis."

"We believe the government should truly serve the people."

"Training, as practiced in much of corporate America, is an astonishing waste of resources."

"Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid t…"

"Britishness...is a political synonym for Englishness which extends English culture over the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish."

"Ours was never a country conceived as a democracy. To arrive at a democracy, we Americans destroyed a republic."

"It is also worth recalling that French officials adopted this very same approach until March 14. Macron initially refused to adopt strict containment measures because, as he stated on March 6, "restri…"

"A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power."

"The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always t…"

"The adjective “political” in “political philosophy” designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, “political philosophy” means primarily not the p…"

"When the voters tell us on the doorsteps that they can’t picture our leader in No 10 we have to listen. When our candidates in London and Wales ask the leader to stay away, we have a problem. When the…"

"The role of administration in the modern state is profoundly affected by the general political and cultural environment of the age."

"We lost -- we lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption. We lost their trust when rather than reform government, both parties made it bigger.…"