politics

"If I read the future aright Hitler's government will confront Europe with a series of outrageous events and ever-growing military might. It is events which will show our dangers, though for some the l…"

"Is the democratic form of government successful in all parts of India? But the solution to the problems of democracy is more democracy. There can be no democracy in India unless you erect a plurality …"

"In America, we vote, we decide as a group of people what our policies are, and that's the way we do business. We don't let violence make those determinations for us."

"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."

"Find in any country the Ablest Man that exists there; raise him to the supreme place, and loyally reverence him: you have a perfect government for that country; no ballot-box, parliamentary eloquence,…"

"How can the will of the people be undermined by a vote of the people?"

"Legal intervention costs money; legal intervention opens up new avenues for abuse, including totalitarian excesses by government officials who seek to determine preferences on personal matters."

"Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role."

"This is our kind of politics-to involve the people in staging protest marches, but not in matters that concern their very lives."

"Democracy is a means of achieving a higher level of individual and collective gratification, welfare, peace, stability and prosperity. It is not an end in itself! Practitioners of democracy in the Pac…"

"The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct."

"American Masters: Charlie Chaplin at PBS"

"This is D.J., Disc Jockey to America turning off. Vietnam, hot dam."

"The government has to be proactive and prepare for the worst-case scenario. Our farmers have to be given all kinds of assistance to make up for the projected crop losses because of the drying up of fa…"

"This House of Commons is a house of frauds. They have destabilised our society by trying to cheat us out of the result of the most important vote any of us have ever taken part in. Political vermin is…"

"There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to est…"

"Ever since my United Nations work, for instance, they've been saying that I've gone into politics. The United Nations is a nonpolitical body."

"There are many imperfections in the workings of the British constitution: we do not live in a democracy, we do not have an elected head of state or an elected upper Chamber, and we do not have an acco…"

"The CBS crew had arrived: Ed Bradley; his producer, David Gelber; and a cameraman. The 60 Minutes people had government permission to work on other stories in Beijing, but they went first to Shanghai …"

"It is precisely the immediate and thorough eradication of the Jews in Italy which is the special interest of the present internal political situation and the general security in Italy."