Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions. ”

I made the case for public ownership in 'Another World is Possible' - a manifesto for 21st-century socialism - as it is the most rational approach for managing resources in the long-term interest of the entire community. ”

To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised. ”

We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs. ”

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting. ”

Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern. ”

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values. ”

On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend. ”

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character. ”

Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ”