#pol

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#colonial #condemned #increasingly #into #new

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#breakfast #clinton #experience #foreign #foreign policy

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#cast #different #educated #face #interest

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#bear #eating #expansion #federal #form

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#begin #else #grandiose #man #politics

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#french #joined #member #party #political

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#associate #bad #bad men #combine #contemptible

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#policy #principle #rebels #subjects #tyrants