Quotes About Politics

married Eadbald's sister, Æthelburh, for she, unlike her brother,

simple matter of physics, then, made the Central Arizona Project even worse, in an economic sense, than the Colorado River Storage Project. But politics demanded that it be built, and in the 1960s, Arizona had power.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

The social leaders who refuse to allow politics into society are as foreseeing as the soldiers who refuse to allow politics to permeate the army. Society is like the sexual appetite; one does not know at what forms of perversion it may not arrive, once we have allowed our choice to be dictated by aesthetic considerations.

De?ersiz bir yetenek olan politika de?ildir, Bir ki?iye ya da ?iire kahramanl?k unvan? veren.

Luther's principles for the internal, and Machiavelli's practice for the external, direction of the State were to be the ideal for many generations.

on December 20, 1989, the United States attacked Panama with what was reported to be the largest airborne assault on a city since World War II.6 It was an unprovoked attack on a civilian population. Panama and her people posed absolutely no threat to the United States or to any other country. Politicians, governments, and press around the world denounced the unilateral U.S. action as a clear violation of international law.

Jika para pemberi suara tidak tahu alat terpenting yang dimanfaatkan pemimpin mereka, bisakah bangsa tersebut mengklaim sebagai bangsa yang demokratis?

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Never believe governments,' she wrote, 'not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

Voters do not choose prime ministers; they choose representatives. And the voters' muscle is expressed through the right of their representatives to give their confidence to governments and to remove it. If the ability of the representatives to give or remove their confidence is interfered with, we are no longer a democracy.

The core of this ideology is the marginalization of the public good in favour of Hobbesian self-interest: fear

When parties and elections are financed not by public funds but by private contributions, the political forum is so constrained by the wishes of the dominant interests that the basic measures needed to establish just constitutional rule are seldom properly presented.

François Mitterrand is credited with saying that the most essential quality for any statesman is indifference

You're saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?

There are more numb-nuts around here than in the Florida state legislature, which, believe me, was a whole passel of numb-nuts.

The regular campaign staff, including the regular campaign manager, had no idea that the shadow staff existed.

They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money wrapped up, she looked terrific, she had a mind that understood the necessary treacheries: a silken Machiavelli.

Flowers wouldn't be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.

THEY SPENT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES plowing through the minutiae of the campaign.

She thought Trump was going to be reinstated as President as soon as Biden was convicted of child molestation.

You know the problem with the Senate? It's like being nibbled to death by ducks. There's never a second during the whole darn day that somebody doesn't want to talk to you—and, most of the time, doesn't need to. People want to talk to you, so they can say, 'I was talking to Senator Grant yesterday,' and then they start lying.

a political line that sounds like the party's. I thought of you and your boys, first thing. A few other people