Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day. ”

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ”

I like the noise of democracy. ”

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. ”

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ”

The American public does not know poets exist. ”

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. ”

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. ”

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ”

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government. ”