Quotes About Politics

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

As a senator, Obama denounced the Big Brother provisions of Bush's post-9/11 Patriot Act, particularly its sections enabling the state to spy on Americans without their knowledge. After taking power, Obama acquired his other face. That face speaks far less, but when it does, it justifies Bush's policies.

Spying on the prime minister of Israel and Congress has nothing to do with national security - only politics.

I don't live like liberals in a 5,000 square foot mansion.

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

I think we need to show people that they have a place in the Democratic Party, whether they come from San Francisco or St. Louis.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

Conservative politics are about pragmatism, realism and stability.

True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

Diversity does not preclude political stability.

In many... cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you're seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you're seeing all-out war.

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.

Liberals don't believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.

We need a transitional Brexit deal that provides maximum certainty and stability. Labour will deliver it.

Israel's system of proportional representation rarely produces stable government.

Jokes apart, I, like many other, am looking for strong and stable government. I don't want any chaotic political situation where the elected government is being toppled frequently.

First, only a stable government can do good for the nation and deliver development. By stable government, I mean one with a full majority. Then, only a strong leader can resolve the problems of the people.

I do not intend to join the NDA. I just want the country to get a stable government.

The deck is stacked against Obama.

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.