For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not...

In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to...

If you use the same formula to solve different problems, you will always get same results

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

The World Trade Center is not a place for domestic or international politics,

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.

It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.

stick your nose in other people’s business” Is so compulsive and epidemic to human society.

A sheep that walks amongst wolves is called dinner.

In the winter of 1987 India was full of iskeems that had gone awry. Agricultural iskeems, political iskeems, economic iskeems, educational iskeems, stop black money iskeems, attract white tourists iskeems, drinkable water iskeems, animal protection...

Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shadow which came from indignations and from systems. All that had...

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

So no, I’m not too big on religion…and not very fond of politics or economics either…And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I...

One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywhere else. It would be impossible to imagine men forever unequal in one respect, yet equal in others;...

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: “The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

I like talking about people who don’t have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and...

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Political convictions then were of the utmost importance, so intensely felt that it was difficult even for well-balanced and temperate men to think of the opposition party without bitterness. To the rank and file of...

…Bin Laden’s quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck.” “If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put...

The right to regulate the use of wealth in the public interest is universally admitted. Let us admit also the right to regulate the terms and conditions of labor, which is the chief element of...

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.

People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those...

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

We’re a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it’s misdirected.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

…Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true....

In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was...

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

It’s easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush I—almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without...

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate’er is best administered is best.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to...

Do you realize,’ Dr. Ramzi says, smiling broadly, ‘when you speak of a political programme, that your programme now is the same that Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi’s government tried to establish more than a hundred years...

Revolutions are infinite.

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided...

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London Review of Books published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward...

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis,...

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they’re all just made of people.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

immaculate conception” theory of crises abroad. That is, we believe we are essentially out there, just minding our own business, trying to help make the world right, only to be endlessly faced with a series...