I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages the federal fabric mandated by the Constitution.

Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and...

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the...

Though I have nothing personally against Mr Modi, he is a representative of a wrong ideology.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed...

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long - established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House...

Similarly, gender equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate...

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But...

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way,...

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not...

I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it...

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of...

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.