Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited. ”

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks. ”

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. ”

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial. ”

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is. ”

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that. ”

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ”

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. ”

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ”

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. ”