politics

"An unpopular opinion concerning politics or religion lies concealed in the breast of every man; in many cases not only one sample, but several. The more intelligent the man, the larger the freightage …"

"We afford automatic respect to superstar business moguls, politicians, and actors and to anyone flying around in a private jet, as if their accomplishments must reflect unique qualities not shared by …"

"In adopting a republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better or for worse, but what a few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all of it bad qualities. Neit…"

"Fear is proverbially a poor adviser for human action; for a party it is destruction. Fear of the labor movement and socialism has caused the political downfall of the German bourgeoisie; and the days …"

"This is not a confrontation between ‘left’ and ‘right’. I am trying to represent the deep feelings of those many thousands of rank-and-file Tories in the country—and potential Conservative voters, too…"

"The screen was a polychrome swirl, like a rainbow that had been through an electric blender."

"A scene like Peter's denial fits into no antique genre. It is too serious for comedy, too contemporary and everyday for tragedy, politically too insignificant for history—and the form which was given …"

"In April of the current year, media headlines pointed to a ‘revolution’ breaking out in Nicaragua against the Sandinista Front government headed by Commander Daniel Ortega. Until then, and for 11 year…"

"The force of circumstances... is stronger than even the strongest government: the language and customs of the Latin people immediately shared its ascendancy in Italy, and already began to undermine th…"

"Norman Mailer: The American"

"The first thing they did was pick up survivors. Because we are equipment, too. As long as the Republic takes care of us, we'll take care of it."

"The political stage is... dominated by... well-rehearsed and deeply felt arguments, on either side... The debate is unending. ...ingle-issue campaigning has ...distorted ...national elections. The los…"

"The proper function of government does not include government's intrusion into economic activities;..it should"

"National Women's Hall of Fame entry"

"The plague of government is senile delinquency."

"Democracy is a metasolution to the problem of diversity."

"The idea of politics as a conservation in which the collision of opinions is moderated and accommodated, in which what is sought is not truth but peace, has been almost entirely lost, and supplanted b…"

"People get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one …"

"Our rulers will now have leisure to attend to every part of our American polity; and, among other things, to the state of Indians: … they have been looked upon as untamed and untameable monsters; whom…"

"I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up."