vista dos autos”, paralisando a análise do caso.

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through...

Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you!

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly,...

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of...

general population” that so concerned the Secretary.

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn’t matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all...

What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian ‘il n’y a pas de rapport …’: if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no relationship...

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

A society which is predominantly Christian will propagate Christianity: One which is not, will not. We have, in the long run, little either to hope or to fear from government.

It’s August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks – serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere.Oil shocks have...

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

I call it treason against rock ‘n’ roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. … When I was a kid and my parents started talking about...

Political leaders are a reflection of our society.

continue his negative politics.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can’t take anything, you won’t get anything, and if...

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy...

Just because I like to suck cock doesn’t make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

You know what it’s like—you see someone on the train screaming awful, racist things and think, ‘How can I protect this person’s right to free speech?

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact…

The President was trapped – and with nearly every president, it had come about from his own words. Presidential promises and statements… The people had this annoying way of remembering them. And even if they...

That’s just how white folks will do you. It wasn’t merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness...

Politics is always in the background when you consider to withdraw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. We had an actual shortage, and it was in response to that and also to high prices that they...

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and...

The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they...

Nowadays people have forgotten about morality and virtue, but they know how to resolve arguments. Look, what’s happening. We lead wars with measurements, dafters and calculations. We do not speak to inspire, we endeavour to...

…We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place...

Political centrism ≠ neutrality. Being a centrist doesn’t make you unbiased; it biases you in favour of the centre.

Are you going to give a speech?’ she asked gaily.He gave a choked laugh. ‘Of course not,’ he said. ‘Not for ages.”My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!’ …’In the Lords, I...

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

Sometime I’m going to do an essay called ‘The Virtues of Amateurism’ for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else....

For all its outwardly easy Latin charm, Buenos Aires was making me feel sick and upset, so I did take that trip to the great plains where the gaucho epics had been written, and I...

Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Bisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems – as they are both a man and a great big pussy.