Quotes About Politics

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.

I have no formal proof, but I dare not believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen would treat me as collateral damage in the battle he is having with the party.

People told me it was impossible to beat the Americans at their own game; there was a lot of politics involved and outsiders didn't stand a chance. But if you're good enough, nothing else matters - I'm living proof of it!

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But as they are the largest, most powerful, and least accountable political advocacy group in the country, Americans also need to do more than complain as the press harms the country.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

Musharraf's government has a civilian face - there are still elections and assemblies - and he has come to believe his own propaganda that he really is a democrat.

In the early years after the Communist Revolution, politics and revolutionary fervor infused every aspect of daily life, and the very air one breathed seemed filled with propaganda for Communist ideals.

The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.

The Tashkent Files' is not a propaganda film.

The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I'm being absolutely serious about that.

When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. They are not proper Conservatives.

There is a system in BJP as to who would be projected as a chief ministerial candidate or a prime ministerial candidate. The proper forum to take decision is only central parliamentary board.

The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.