Asma Jahangir Quotes

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

Our tribunals — unlike those in the United States — have been traditionally subordinated to political power. Mexico has a history of corrupt elections where the will of the people has been subverted by the wealthy and powerful.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Politics makes me sick.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

Politics disgusts me.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

The establishment of Washington is utterly corrupt and is incapable of governing.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

Evidence that has surfaced has cast a black cloud of distrust over our entire society. Our citizens do not know whom to believe, and many of them have concluded that all the processes of government have become so compromised that honest government has been rendered impossible.

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

It is too early to tell where Mobutu will draw the line between corruption and the ‘normal’ use of payments and patronage to facilitate operations.

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.