Quotes about "Politics & Government"

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster. ”

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly. ”

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated. ”

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. ”

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. ”

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. ”

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket. ”

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ”

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. ”

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.' ”