Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Civil and political rights are critical but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
The greatest power is not money power but political power.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
The Establishment center has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
I went to college at the University of Kansas where I got a degree in political science.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Down the road I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on and humor.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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.
Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.
Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself power and glory or happiness.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.