Quotes About Politics

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

That concept is more properly known as 'caesaro-papism'; the king was now both Caesar and pope.

Statesmen may plot and plan. Learned men may calculate and conclude. Diplomats may debate and prevaricate. But chance rules the immediate affairs of humankind.

Everything we knew from life suggested that America would do what it liked ...

Dem Begriff der Politischen Ökologie kommt wohl nicht zuletzt deshalb eine besondere Bedeutung zu, weil er den Bezug zum letztlich wertsetzenden menschlichen Lebensverband herstellt und die schicksalhafte Verbindung zwischen der Gestaltung dieses Lebensverbands und dem Schicksal der Natur betont, ohne sich jedoch aus dem alle Um- und Mitwelt-Wissenschaften umfassenden humanökologischen Kontext zu lösen

But the most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important challenge in society, economics, politics, is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities. The important thing is to identify the "future that has already happened"—and to develop a methodology for perceiving and analyzing these changes. A

Hitler as "the only man who can save us

Never before had so many citizens participated in an election.

national awakening" it oversaw proved useful, as it allowed the Nazis to label "Marxist" opponents as un-German traitors and terrorists.

Berlin Stays Red

Reich chancellor!

Erich Ebermayer joked that the government "would last until after the next lost war.

mixing cajolery with lies, threats, and violence. The Reichstag fire provided them with apparently good reasons for pushing through an emergency decree

It's not just tougher out there. It's become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a 'D' or an 'R' after your name. There's no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.

continual dissipation of American forces and morale. She was "petrified" about the consequences for America of making politics subservient indefinitely to military strategy.

Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.

David Frost: It's all right. He wants me to do this. To finish him off. John Birt: What? David Frost: He wants the wilderness.

Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politicians stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.

DEATH BY CHINA Confronting the Dragon—A Global Call to Action

This Republican takeback of Capitol Hill would immediately