Quotes About Politics

El 14 de septiembre de 1930 tuvieron lugar las elecciones al Reichstag en las que los nazis pasaron meteóricamente de ser un partido ridículo y escindido a ocupar la segunda posición, de doce mandatos a ciento siete.

Besides, he promised everything to everybody, which naturally brought him a vast, loose army of followers and voters from among the ignorant, the disappointed, and the dispossessed.

In this, as in so much else, the Communists and the Nazis are of the same opinion.

The German Reich had to cease to be a state in order to become fully an instrument of conquest.

Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças a Churchill, o fascismo deixou de desempenhar qualquer papel significativo no mundo, ficando o liberalismo e o socialismo a travar a luta pela primazia na política interna dos países. (...) Churchill não desejava grande parte destes cenários, embora aceitasse como mal menor num contexto mais pessimista.

En qué consiste una revolución? Los expertos en Derecho político afirman lo siguiente: una revolución consiste en alterar una Constitución a través de medios no previstos por ella.

La gente comenzó a participar, primero sólo por miedo. Sin embargo, tras haber tomado parte una primera vez, ya no quisieron hacerlo por miedo –eso hubiera sido cruel y despreciable–, así que terminaron incorporando el convencimiento político necesario. Éste es el mecanismo emocional básico del triunfo de la revolución nacionalsocialista.

Me di cuenta de que la revolución nazi había surpimido la antigua división entre política y vida privada, y de que era imposible tomárselo como un simple "acontecimiento político". La revolución no solo se produjo en la esfera política, sino también en cada vida privada, actuando como un gas tóxico que penetra a través de todas las paredes.

Ama iÅŸte bu anda çok tuhaf bir ÅŸey oldu - ve böyle size zaman?m?z?n, hiçbir gazetede yazmayan, en temel siyasi hadiselerinden birini anlatabilme ÅŸans?m oluÅŸtu: Bu davete icabet etmedi insanlar?n çoÄŸu. Ä°stemediler bunu. Almanya'da koca bir neslin, kendilerine bahÅŸedilen bu kocaman hediyeyle, özgür bir özel hayat kurma imkan?yla ne yapaca??n? bilemediÄŸi ortaya ç?kt?.

It was at this time that, invisibly and unnoticed, the Germans divided into those who later became Nazis and those who would remain non-Nazis.

Claro que tuvo que ocurrir algo más para que este mecanismo fuese perfecto: la traición cobarde de los dirigentes de todos los partidos y organizaciones en quienes confió el cincuenta y seis por ciento de los alemanes que votó en contra de los nazis el 5 de marzo de 1933.

According to Cemil Cicek these people do not have problems regarding language, culture or faith, all is about the circumcision. If that is really the problem and if you are so interested we can appoint you as the "government circumciser" and send you to Kandil (PKK HQ in northern Iraq) to solve it. (On the quote of Cemil Cicek, speaker for AKP: "Some of those PKK terrorists without circumcision should tell you a lot about the issue")

Dear Mr. Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, as long as HDP remains and our voters remain on this land, we will not let you become president, we will not let you become president, we will not let you become president. (His last party meeting speech before 2015 general elections that only lasted 3 minute 36 seconds)

PM says they want to win the elections for the municipalities of Diyarbakir, Van and Sirnak. In case, we (BDP) want New York, Paris and Rome but you can't have them all. (On the quote from PM Tayyip Erdogan for the ruling party AKP wanting to win the local elections for 3 cities which the BDP won with 60% average on last elections)

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

We're busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...

Secondo alcuni ci si trova di fronte a un "dilemma democratico" che si può enunciare in questo modo: più una entità/unità politica è piccola e dunque direttamente controllabile dai suoi cittadini, più sono ridotti i suoi ambiti di sovranità. [...] D'altra parte, più l'entità territoriale è estesa più si indeboliscono le opportunità di partecipazione dei cittadini.

Leger died a Communist, having fallen once and for all for the greatest charlatanism of all times. It may be that, like many artists, he was stupid

Whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Emotion is emotion, and politics is politics, and one has nothing to do with the other.