Quotes About Politics

Rumour has it that, after his election, Trump declared: "Yesterday, we were on the edge of the abyss but today, we have taken a big step forward!"

who want to run as MPs?' Janine said, clarifying her shorthand. 'And the current MP for this area suddenly announced that he is retiring next year, and

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Each chapter provides an autobiographical meditation that may be informed by some mixture of history, philosophy, or politics. Read Until You Understand demonstrates how a people have lived with style, grace, brilliance, and beauty in the face of persistent crisis and catastrophe. This is one of the many underappreciated gifts of Black Americans to the nation they have helped to shape and build. In fact, because of

Increasingly–and mirroring what was happening in American politics–Heinlein would attract single-issue or single-novel admirers. Starship Troopers was just the first inkling of this.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Quando c'erano i Viceré, i nostri erano Viceré; adesso che abbiamo il parlamento, lo zio è deputato!

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Otro corresponsal le preguntó [a Perón] qué pensaba hacer para regresar al poder en la Argentina. El Generla le sonrió y le respondió: "Nada. Todo lo harán mis enemigos".

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism

Mother put on her serious face. "I can't stand idly by and watch the country go down the Swannee. The political arena is the only logical and reasonable course left open to any decent Irish patriot. Besides, last night the cumann nominated me to contest the seat left vacant by the death of Dinny Blackstone who has represented the area in the Dail for twenty years. Who am I to argue?" "Sure he's been dead for at least ten years," Rory said. "It's a wonder that anyone finally noticed.

Le confucianisme n'est pas seulement un essai d'explication rationaliste du monde, il est une morale politique et sociale; sinon une vraie religion, comme on l'a avancé, du moins une attitude philosophique qui s'accommode aussi bien d'une certaine religiosité que du scepticisme, ou même de l'agnosticisme le plus franc.

En el pueblo me asfixiaba. Ya sé que no me está bien el decirlo, pues allí nací y me crié y allí tenía mi cuadrilla. Pero no aguantaba más. En el pueblo vive mucha gente echada a perder por la política. Gente que hoy te da un abrazo y mañana, por lo que sea que le hayan contado, deja de dirigirte la palabra

Asimismo escribí en contra del crimen perpetrado con excusa política, en nombre de una patria donde un puñado de gente armada, con el vergonzoso apoyo de un sector de la sociedad, decide quién pertenece a dicha patria y quién debe abandonarla o desaparecer. Escribí sin odio contra el lenguaje del odio y contra la desmemoria y el olvido tramado por quienes tratan de inventarse una historia al servicio de su proyecto y sus convicciones totalitarias

En política, como en todo, lo contrario de un golpe con el puño derecho no es un golpe con el puño izquierdo, sino un abrazo.

El capitalismo es detestable. El comunismo es peor. El capitalismo te permite a un tiempo llevar vida de capitalista y renegar del capitalismo, mientras que el comunismo es por principio incompatible con cualquier forma de disidencia.

El nacionalismo es uno de los grandes enemigos de los hombres libres, el otro es el socialismo.

Política não é apenas ideal, é caminho para se aproximar do ideal

The Left did not regard JK favorably, given his efforts to strengthen a free market economy with participation of foreign capital. Nor was he much admired by the academy that viewed with suspicion his flamboyant democratic attitude, which usually led him to reconcile conflicting forces. My father was a federal deputy at that time, a member of the coalition of parties that supported the government.