politics

"I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell."

"Be united, persevere, and achieve self-Government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine, and plague may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the g…"

"It's time to turn this debate around, drive out politics of despair and offer a vision for Britain in Europe."

"The International Monetary Fund is the watchdog of the dollar in the capitalist camp."

"Inverted totalitarianism reverses things. It is all politics all of the time but a politics largely untempered by the political. Party squabbles are occasionally on public display, and there is a fran…"

"Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel …"

"For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between stationary and progressive nations, and the more da…"

"It is probable that democracy owes more to Nonconformity than to any other single movement."

"Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and domi…"

"I think almost everyone, including me, thought the election of our first black president would lead to new efforts to improve the dismal economic condition of African-Americans. In fact, Obama has sel…"

"To the ignorant and bawling fanatics who stun you with their pother about liberty, political or civil liberty seems to be the principal end for which government ought to exist. But the final cause or …"

"With TV, came the icon, the inclusive image, the inclusive political posture or stance."

"I have one question for the Government, why can't it function without the coup perpetrators?"

"I agree with you to the letter in all you say about Ireland. There is no doubt that the land question is at the root of the evil. And here let me say that I go heartily with you in the determination t…"

"Westward and inland there was a form of government, some prince or other sitting on his backside ordering this or that."

"I have three great interests left in politics, a single currency, electoral reform, and the union of the Liberals with Labour. And all three are languishing."

"After nearly a quarter of a century of prosperity under the Constitution, the spirit of slavery so far triumphed over the early principles and practices of the government that, in 1812, South Carolina…"

"The Government were on the look-out for a good, strong business man, with some push and go in him, who will be able to put the thing through."

"To punish public outrages on morals and religion is unquestionably within the competence of rulers. But when a government, not content with requiring decency, requires sanctity, it oversteps the bound…"

"Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will…"