When I first got to America in the 60s… two things happened. First of all, I very much admired the cross-the-aisle friendships and thought we don’t have that in England. We have real battles between the Tories and the Labour, but in America there seems to be these — and this was destroyed by Newt […]
Politics Quotes
I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are “she” and “her.” I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.
There are few policies potentially more disastrous for Canada than to tell all Canadians that they must be alike. There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an “all-Canadian” boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and […]
I have a revulsion of celebrities forcing politics down people’s throats, but I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror on election day if I had not done everything I could to try to prevent Trump getting in again.
When the war closed – we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines – doctrines of paternalism and state socialism.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
