Quotes About Politics

Su circa 7 miliardi di abitanti nel pianeta, sono circa 7 milioni i migranti potenziali, dunque l'1% dell'umanità. Il paventato pericolo migratorio è un fantasma, alimentato da certa politica elettorale, per suscitare paura nei cittadini.

He was explaining how capitalism is bad--and I could see he had a point, but at the same time, I got the feeling that socialism or communism, or whatever he's selling, is probably just as bad, and the problem is human beings can ruin anything, even if it's a good idea to begin with.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

That was the only thing Washington was good at these days—recriminations and apportionment of blame. There was once a time, during the darkest days of the Cold War, when American foreign policy was characterized by consensus and steadfastness. Now the two parties could not agree on what to call the enemy, let alone how to combat him.

The first attempted coup in the history of the United States of America had failed.

Gabriel thought it was the darkest day in American history since 9/11, though somehow worse. The attack had been launched not by a distant enemy but by the occupant of the Oval Office.

Your system (Russia) allows for no viable opposition, and, without a viable opposition, there can be no democracy. - Sarah Crawford

The engines of America run on Saudi oil, but the networks of global Islamic terrorism run largely on Saudi money.

Russia will never be a democracy again, Allon. We cannot live as normal people.

Russian Laundromat?

The Tsar is the most powerful man in the world, never forget that.

And we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet. - Graham Seymour

He was afraid that if communism collapsed, the Soviet Union would no longer serve as a beacon for those in the West who believed capitalism to be unjust." "The useful idiots.

You would have a better chance of slowing the rise of the seas than bringing democracy to Russia.

majoritarianism.

That's true," said Gabriel. "The American president writes love letters to the ayatollah. And us . . ." He gave an indifferent shrug of his shoulders but said nothing more.

A politically divided and destabilized America - an America drifting toward white nationalism, authoritarianism, and isolationism - will pose no challenge (...). Page 467.

the Tsar next to her, grinning and preening at his latest triumph over the West. And just who did he think he was fooling with that starched and pressed face of his? Real fascists, thought Charlotte, did not use Botox.

a visiting congressman from Ohio. Inspired by the

The Saudis are more afraid of Iran than they are of ISIS. Iran is Shiite. And ISIS, for all its evil, is Sunni." "And

Boswell spent much of the evening lamenting his country's dreadful politics. Isherwood listened attentively. Inwardly, however, he wondered why it was that enlightened Americans always found it necessary to bash their country whenever they set foot in the mother ship. "I'm

They were racing westward along the A89 Autoroute, the chief of the Israeli secret intelligence service and the future king of Saudi Arabia.

It's been 10 Years since 9/11. Ten years, Gabriel repeated, and Saudi Arabia is still a cash machine for terrorists and Sunni extremist groups. There's only one possible explanation. The deal with the devil has been renewed. The House of Saud side is willing to turn a blind eye to Islamic terror as long as the secret rage is directed outward, away from the oil fields.