Quotes About Politics

Geography and history demonstrate that we can never discount Russia. Russia's partial resurgence in our own age following the dissolution of the Soviet Empire is part of an old story. Russia

The more urbanized, the more educated, and even the more enlightened the world becomes, counterintuitively, the more politically unstable it becomes, too.*42 This is what techno-optimists and those who inhabit the world of fancy corporate gatherings are prone to miss: They wrongly equate wealth creation—and unevenly distributed wealth creation at that—with political order and stability.

Maps, in other words, can be dangerous tools. And yet they are crucial to any understanding of world politics.

TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.

If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new "labour-saving efficiency", but if we think of politics as democratic deliberation, to leave people out is to miss the whole point of the exercise.

É dispensável dizer que, na falta do direito de exercer oposição, o direito de "participar" é despido de boa parte do significado que tem num país onde existe a contestação pública. '' P. 25 ''Consideremos, então, a democratização como formada por pelo menos duas dimensões: contestação pública e direito de participação'' P.26

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

was like trying to find an honest man in Congress.

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Joseph Ratzinger commented that the opening line of the Nicene Creed, Credo in unum Deum (I believe in one God), is a subversive statement because it automatically rules out any rival claimant to ultimate concern. To say that one accepts only the God of Israel and Jesus Christ is to say that one rejects as ultimate any human being, any culture, any political party, any artistic form, or any set of ideas.

This war is not about slavery.

One of the ironic things," Kennedy observed to Norman Cousins in the spring of 1963, "…is that Mr. Khrushchev and I occupy approximately the same political positions inside our governments. He would like to prevent a nuclear war but is under severe pressure from his hard-line crowd, which interprets every move in that direction as appeasement. I've got similar problems…. The hard-liners in the Soviet Union and the United States feed on one another."8

Les prétendues chambres à gaz hitlériennes et le prétendu génocide des Juifs forment un seul et même mensonge historique qui a permis une gigantesque escroquerie politico-financière, dont les principaux bénéficiaires sont l'État d'Israël et le sionisme international, et dont les principales victimes sont le peuple allemand — mais non pas ses dirigeants et le peuple palestinien tout entier.

The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which has permitted a gigantic political and financial swindle whose main beneficiaries are the state of Israel and international Zionism and whose main victims are the German people – but not their leaders – and the Palestinian people in their entirety.

Asimismo, la administración de los Estados Unidos hizo caso omiso de las reuniones secretas del gabinete interior de Arafat, que derivaron en la detención de numerosos oponentes políticos.

26 de enero pregunté a nuestros lectores de The Independent qué teníamos pensado hacer cuando los iraquíes exigieran nuestra retirada de su país. «Puesto que estaremos ocupando un país extranjero. Estaremos ocupando Iraq igual que Israel ocupa Gaza y Cisjordania. Y cuando Sadam no esté, Osama bin Laden tendrá vía libre para exigir la liberación de Iraq como otro de sus objetivos.

Cuando los israelíes no construían casas en suelo palestino, se dedicaban a demoler casas palestinas. Entre la firma del acuerdo de Oslo en 1993 y marzo de 1998, los bulldozers israelíes echaron abajo 629 casas palestinas, 535 en Cisjordania y 94 en Jerusalén, más de una tercera parte bajo un gobierno laborista israelí, y el resto bajo el mandato de Likud.

gobierno laborista de Ehud Barak —anunciado como la administración más liberal y pro palestina desde Rabin— colonizó Cisjordania a un ritmo diez veces superior al del gobierno Likud de Netanyahu.

1984), lanzacohetes múltiples de Brasil (junio 1984), bombas de racimo de 250 kilos de Chile (enviadas desde Santiago a bordo de 747 de las líneas iraquíes en 1984).

No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on wall posters and gateposts amid naively painted clusters of tulips and roses, the final artistic accolade of every armed martyr in Lebanon.

El mayor escándalo de la política interior kuwaití fue la expulsión de 360.000 palestinos durante los dos años siguientes, una operación de «limpieza étnica» sin parangón desde las matanzas que acompañaron la huida de los palestinos ante las fuerzas israelíes en 1948.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still have a generally positive view of the wealthy and, rightly or wrongly, believe they too can make it to Richistan someday.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.