Politics Quote by David Lange Download Open image “An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.” — David Lange ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Politics Zone
Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
“The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what… — David Lange Copy Share Image
New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception. — David Lange Copy Share Image
Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain… — David Lange Copy Share Image
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles… — David Lange Copy Share Image
We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect,… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all… — David Lange Copy Share Image
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and… — David Lange Copy Share Image
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
