Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. ”

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ”

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. ”

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love. ”

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing. ”

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free. ”

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ”

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. ”

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership. ”

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. ”