politics

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

"People seek government action because they don't approve of what other people choose to do with their lives. They want to overrule the decisions others have made concerning the use of their own time a…"

"He now, in 1749, at the age of twenty two, wrote... a letter which has been an object of wonder among political thinkers ever since. Its subject was paper money. Discussing the ideas of John Law, and …"

"All politics is local."

"Antonine Maillet - The Possibilities Are Endless , National Film Board of Canada"

"Republican Legislature let down America. I’m ashamed of them. They completely misled the President and me."

"Mitt and his ilk are always saying, "If only we ran the government more like a business." No! Government is there specifically for the things that are not supposed to run like a business. Government i…"

"It hardly makes any difference who will be the next president. The world is governed by market forces."

"People get what they vote for."

"The cost of making government more responsive to the people who fund it and in whose name it exists should not be attributed solely to FOI, but even if it is, surely that is a cost worth bearing? Maki…"

"They refused with their votes . They don’t want to vote with us but they want us to vote with them. … We cannot keep on voting for people who won’t vote for us. It’s done. It’s finished. … We took a d…"

"They vote for us to go to war instantly, but none of their kids serve in the infantry."

"Picture a French election circa 2020, 2025: the Islamic Republican Coalition wins the most seats in the National Assembly."

"Trump did not create the worst dysfunctions of our democracy; our worst dysfunctions created him. He's the symptom, not the cause, of a dangerous slide away from vital democracy toward corporate autho…"

"Tom Lehrer: The Political Musician Who Wasn't"

"I am a Republican, as the two great political parties as now divided, because the Republican party is a National party, seeking the greatest good for the greatest number of citizens. There is not a pr…"

"Had ten minutes conversation with Henry Morgenthau about Jewish ship in Palistine. Told him I would talk to Gen Marshall about it. He'd no business, whatever to call me. The Jews have no sense of prop…"

"The Government of India is the most arduous and perhaps the noblest trust ever undertaken by a nation."

"I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only …"

"Two very different ideas are usually confounded under the name democracy. The pure idea of democracy, according to its definition, is the government of the whole people by the whole people, equally re…"