Quotes About Politics

The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful.

Alemania estaba transformada. Hitler había erradicado el desempleo, algo que ningún otro dirigente europeo había conseguido hacer.

No se puede encarcelar a la oposición y seguir fingiendo que crees en la libertad.

He had quoted Lenin: 'He who controls Berlin, controls Germany; and who controls Germany, controls Europe.

Estas elecciones son demasiado importantes para que se decidan con un puñado de burlas.

It's our responsibility to make politics less rough—more honest, more rational, less violent. If we do not do that, we fail in our patriotic duty.

I've met the people who run Alabama. Believe me, they're not that smart.

en política, la memoria podía alargarse mucho.

Why was it, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

people who were polite to his mistress. Lloyd George spoke to the group. "That German ship delivered the guns to Mexico after all. It simply went to another port and quietly unloaded. So nineteen American troops died for nothing. It's a terrible humiliation for Woodrow Wilson.

As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It

We move by inches, not miles," said Gus Dewar with a smile. "That's politics.

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad. Stalin lo sabe, y por eso no quiere que Alemania salga de la pobreza.

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.

This was the kind of thing Oswald Mosley and his British Fascists wanted—a country in which the rule of law was replaced by bullying and beating.

Weapons seem to be the issue now, isn't it?" "Aye," said Billy. "The Germans and the Italians are supplying the rebels with guns and ammunition, as well as fighter planes and pilots. But no one is helping the elected Spanish government.

This guy was high on Greg's suspect list. He was German, though he had left in the mid-1930s and gone to London. He was an anti-Nazi but not a Communist: his politics were Social Democrat. He was married to an American girl, an artist. Talking to him over lunch, Greg found no reason for suspicion: he seemed to love living in America and to be interested in little but his work. But with foreigners you could never be quite sure where their ultimate loyalty lay.

Mi vida ha sido un fracaso —dijo Walter—. Aquí acaban todas las esperanzas. La democracia alemana ha muerto.

Like all diplomats, Walter hated it when monarchs talked directly to each other, instead of through their ministers. Anything could happen then.

In the old days you wouldn't discuss politics at all." "If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

International politics is like a glass. Aggressive moves by either side pour water in. The overflow is war." Dimka

There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.

There's no rule that says public opinion has to be consistent." Gus found his boss's calm admirable, but a bit frustrating. "How the heck do you deal with that?" Wilson smiled, showing his bad teeth. "Gus, did someone tell you politics was easy?