Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there. ”

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented. ”

The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman. ”

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations. ”

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ”

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy. ”

We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers, and philosophers, so we actually have a lot ideas and a lot of really thought out strategies. ”

We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us. ”

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. ”

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ”