Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! ”

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things. ”

I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it. ”

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political. ”

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset. ”

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism. ”

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology. ”

For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting. ”

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible. ”

When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects. ”