#pol

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#could #flight #footsteps #foul #gloom

Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#around #assigned #bahrain #been #consequences

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#bahrain #because #criminals #express #only

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#cleansing #ethnic #genocide #innocent #innocent people

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals. ↗

— Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

#changes #examine #find #ideals #many

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#corruption #cultural #economic #must #plots

The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#elections #iranian #keep #losers #million

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#policy #thesis #welfare #wrote

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West. ↗

— Aly Khan

#close #concepts #dwell #govern #how

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. ↗

— Imran Khan

#democracy #money #only #politics #spent