Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ”

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers. ”

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ”

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. ”

I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year. ”

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there. ”

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity. ”

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules. ”

Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre. ”

I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity. ”