politics

"John F. Kennedy in United States Census Records"

"Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Le…"

"“Angry white male” is now an acceptable slur in culture and politics. So it is that people of that derided ethnicity, race, and gender see in Donald Trump someone who unapologetically berates and mock…"

"It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round."

"I only wanted to ask the Tanaiste if he now officially endorses cronyism and patronage in Irish politics."

"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

"I want to illustrate the concept of a solution in mixed strategies with a concrete example using real-world data, but I have not been able to find an appropriate one from Canadian politics."

"We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all."

"Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it…"

"People in Hong Kong still believe in democracy – the big question after the Umbrella Movement is how we can achieve it."

"Noteworthy-in its biography of Sardar Patel, Wikipedia avoids all mention of how Nehru stole PM office from Patel by blackmailing Gandhi. Nehru didn't get even one Congress Committee to vote for him."

"When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy."

"Revolutionary Social-Democracy has always included the struggle for reforms as part of its activities. But it utilises “economic” agitation for the purpose of presenting to the government, not only de…"

"What a silly question! What a silly person you are! Hezbollah is winning the war; you can see on the other half of the screen. Hezbollah is more popular today in Lebanon amongst Christians, amongst Su…"

"Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be batt…"

"But the chief design of this paper is not to disprove it, which many have sufficiently done; but to entreat Americans to consider."

"The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth."

"While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in Union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, gr…"

"Frost at Modern American Poetry"

"He knew from his own experience in Singapore that the further up the ladder one got, the more the job was about politics and statistics than actually dealing with crime."