Quotes About Political

O'Gorman mostró ahí que el triunfo de la república contra el monarquismo durante el siglo XIX no fue la fácil victoria nativa sobre una pasión foránea y caprichosa. Por el contrario: durante trescientos años de vida colonial, la única legitimidad política que conoció el reino de la Nueva España, matriz de la nación mexicana, fue la legitimidad monárquica.

La destrucción de la legitimidad de los gobiernos priistas está escrita en la cardiografía de sus crisis sexenales de finanzas públicas: 1976, 1982, 1987, 1994-1995. En el año 2000 el PRI perdió la presidencia.

en ese espacio de las negociaciones confidenciales inconfesables, que son el corazón de la lealtad política.

La épica del nacionalismo revolucionario se diluye en un horizonte de crítica pública cuya tierra prometida es la democracia y cuya pieza de caza mayor es el dinosaurio priista.

Antes de salir al exilio, Porfirio Díaz dice: "Han soltado un tigre".

La crisis de 1982 marca el inicio de lo que será la gran transformación política de fines del siglo XX. Esa transformación tiene el rostro de la democracia en el ámbito político y del neoliberalismo en el económico.

México parece listo para dar el paso, pero no lo está realmente. No está dispuesto, ni en el gobierno ni en la sociedad, a someterse a lo único que puede arbitrar una pluralidad democrática efectiva: el respeto colectivo a la ley.

It's a seminal moment in the history of Germany and Europe. Stopping at the Elbe is not a normal military-political decision; it's one dictated by higher powers. Crossing the Rhine is fine; but the Elbe marks the end of reasonable ambition.

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

What's an ideologue?" "Someone who brings religious passion to a political abstraction only cretins could think up," he said. "When you meet one, flee his presence at all costs. He'll incinerate half the planet to save the other half and never understand his own motivations.

Do you see the grand error of their ways? They execute the Republic's business as if it were the business of the Force! But has a political body ever succeeded in being the arbiter of what is right and just?

Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.

conception of democracy that includes the goals of human equality, even the limited form of equality of opportunity, and human freedom. … Labor-repressive agricultural systems, and plantation slavery in particular, are political obstacles to a particular kind of capitalism, at a specific historical stage: competitive democratic capitalism we must call it for lack of a more precise term.

The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz had defined war as the pursuit of political goals by other means. Confederate strategy in 1864 certainly conformed to this definition. If southern armies could hold out until the election, war weariness in the North might cause the voters to elect a Peace Democrat who would negotiate Confederate independence.

The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance, or gift," declared FDR, "is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people," adding that "inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our government.

Suddenly, the only thing I could hear in my head was the voice of then-senator Howard Baker during the Watergate hearings, asking one of the most famous—if not the most famous—political questions of all time. What did the president know and when did he know it? Then

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

The distrust of the political system is unhealthy.

When I got the call about 'Arrival,' I was doubtful because the piece had had a life on cinema already, and we were getting to the point where the original context was sort of lost, and I didn't want that to happen. On the other hand, 'Arrival' itself is a political film because it's about unification and getting beyond boundaries.

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.