Quotes About Politics

We calculated that Japan would have found it advantageous to set Mao Tse-tung up as the leader of the New China, because this would make the vast sums of money held by wealthy Chinese financiers available to Japan. We assumed that to secure Japan's support, Mao had agreed to drive the Americans and English out of China and to cooperate with the new Japanese army.

Muammar Qaddafi deposed King Idris

There you are,' Cardan says as I take my place beside him. 'How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversations about how my head is going to find itself on a spike.

After seeing what Balekin is like, I want Dain on the throne more than ever.

Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

Political liberty, the tranquility of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry.

In those days the blackest deeds were done in politics, to secure public opinion on one side or the other, to catch the votes of that public of fools which holds up hands for those that are clever enough to serve out weapons to them. Individuals are identified with their political opinions, and opponents in public life forthwith became private enemies.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

if it were part of a systematic approach they were taking to being well-rounded, self-actualised people: We exercise regularly, we go to the theatre, we read the right novels, not just the Man Booker shortlist but the Man Booker longlist, we see the right exhibitions and we take a real interest in international politics, social issues and our friends' cute children.

Damn that Berlin Wall, and that Cold War, and whoever it was who sat there back in nineteen forty-whenever-it-was, mulling over the problem of what to do with those ungrateful Germans; the guy who suddenly clicked his fingers and said, "Got it, by Jove! We'll build a great big bloody wall and keep the buggers in!

Did you know that some people wish the Berlin Wall had never come down?" said Esther. "That's weird, isn't it? Why would you want to be stuck behind a wall?

I won't get involved in any school politics," she'd said, and someone up there had overheard and hadn't liked her attitude. Far too confident. "We'll see about that," they'd said, and then sat back and had a good old laugh at her expense.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

You should never ask actors about politics.

You aint gotta vote for us cuz we aint neva runnin.

La forma è sostanza e la forma della nostra democrazia e della nostra convivenza civile, di questi tempi, lascia a desiderare. E a questo punto non c'è più niente da ridere. Il «siamo come voi» va rispedito al mittente. Non siamo affatto così e reclamiamo il diritto a rappresentanti migliori.

And her nephew, getting his PhD at Wisconsin, was declared insane and committed to a state asylum when they discovered he was a leader in the Communist Party there.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.