Quotes about "Politics & Government"

If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters. ”

Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity. ”

Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in the state apparatus, of their approach either to work or to dealing with the public. ”

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us. ”

Even when you just hear the word 'Syria,' it packs a lot of political connotations. ”

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York. ”

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs. ”

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. ”

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war. ”

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others. ”