Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription. ”

Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles. ”

The American public has a right to know what's going on. ”

It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons. ”

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. ”

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier. ”

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. ”

Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. ”

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. ”

The Pope is not a political figure. ”