Quotes About Politics

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

And most worryingly, it wouldn't surprise me if Putin ends up starting a major military conflict with the West at some point in the future to save his own skin as head of state in Russia.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

I am behind Kanye West for American President 100 per cent.

I had moved to Mumbai in 2006 and lived there for around six years while West Bengal was going through a political upheaval. After I returned to Kolkata in February 2012, and started to work here, I realized how things had changed here.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.