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Politics Quotes
"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."
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"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
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"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you."
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"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
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"The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all."
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."
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"Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues."
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"I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief."
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"What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production."
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"The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development."
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"The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other."
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"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
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"What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld."
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"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
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"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."
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"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right."
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"We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
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"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving."
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"There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought."
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"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
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"I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent."
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"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
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"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
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"For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher."
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"We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics."
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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
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"To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs."
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"If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes."
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"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."
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"We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years."
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"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
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"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."
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"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
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"More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators."
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"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."
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"The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten,especially in these days of organization and stereotypes."
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