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Quotes About Bloc

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
~ Samuel P. Huntington
The only party that has better bragging rights than the Greens is the Bloc Quebecois.
~ Elizabeth May
The question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America - or whether they will work together and become a more unified bloc.
~ Norman Davies
This is not another Cold War that we're entering into," he said. "After all, unlike the Soviet Union, Russia leads no bloc of nations, no global ideology." He was tragically wrong.
~ Masha Gessen
Catalan society is divided. There's one bloc - which isn't a majority - that backs pro-independence parties. But there's also a bloc that doesn't, which favours the current state, the statute of autonomy, and either increased decentralisation or even increased recentralisation.
~ Pedro Sanchez
The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.
~ Naftali Bennett
Europe started very well in the 1950s with a trading bloc but it became a political project, and we transferred sovereignty to them. If you don't know what you are - and this is the intention of the E.U. elites - you don't know what you're not either. We should regain our sovereignty again.
~ Geert Wilders
As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.
~ Raghuram Rajan
He showed me a pencil-written analysis of the voting trends. In most black districts, Humphrey was beating McGovern two to one. In the white labor districts, McGovern was easily taking Humphrey. The blacks were clearly the only bloc in the state that had not gone all out for
~ Hunter S. Thompson
What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.
~ Chris Smith
The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.
~ Sergei Ivanov
The State maintains its relative autonomy of particular fractions of the power bloc (including fractions of monopoly capital itself) so that it may ensure the organization of the general interest of the bourgeoisie under the hegemony of one of its fractions.
~ Nicos Poulantzas
an institution destined to reproduce class divisions is not, and can never be, a monolithic bloc without cracks, whose policy is established, as it were, in spite of its own contradictions.
~ Nicos Poulantzas
Contradictions among the dominant classes and fractions - or in other words, the relationship of forces within the power bloc - are precisely what makes it necessary for the unity of the bloc to be organized by the State.
~ Nicos Poulantzas
I think Republicans, to their credit, are not interested, as a majority vote bloc, in funding a wall.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
In the limit, every flight commander, if not every pilot with a weapon aboard, would feel authorized, under some circumstances, to initiate nuclear war with the Communist bloc.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.
~ Nicola Formichetti