politics

"Address to Latin American diplomats at the White House"

"Liberated, Iraq is the only Arab country, so far, to have changed governments three times through elections and also the only one where all political parties operate freely. Iraqis didn’t achieve what…"

"I will argue for the right of the electorate to vote on any deal that is finally agreed."

"The essence of our American tradition of State and local governments is the belief expressed by Thomas Jefferson that Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by …"

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. To break off that point i…"

"Democracy is something more than a set of political procedures. To be worthy of its name, democracy should produce substantive outcomes that advance the health and well-being of the people."

"We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people."

"I am for the legal government of Republican Spain against Franco, since Spain herself, at a properly conducted election, chose that Government and rejected the party which now supports Franco. I am al…"

"It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values."

"Political criticism is our enemies' best friend."

"I'm not in politics for cheap cheers; if I was I could probably have had a safe Tory seat years ago. I'm in it, among other things, because I want to help stop the immigration which is destroying this…"

"Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots"

"MP profile on the Grand National Assembly website"

"Although Black feminism and some currents of postmodernist theory share some common assumptions and common language, these are overshadowed by key differences that make them two distinct approaches to…"

"The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror."

"The timing and conditions are ripe for the two sides to set up representative offices . There are no political implications to the plan and the functions of the offices will be basically neutral."

"Great Germany can only be created on a republican basis."

"Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall."

"The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government."

"Schumpeter’s work, his dynamic view of the entrepreneur and creative destruction has had a great impact on me. He indeed wrote a book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, which intended to give a com…"