Alec Douglas-Home Quotes

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

In the old days the problems of government were few and political, now they are many and are economic and sociological ...

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.

Religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth. However, they can indeed provide what obviously cannot be attained by economic plans, political programs or legal regulations alone: They can effect a change in the inner orientation, the whole mentality, the "hearts," of people

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism.... We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

Government is not an exact science.

It's not our business for the United States to sort out the other fellow's economic problems. We've got enough of our own.

Washington is not a geographical entity, it is a state of mind.... People understand how Cleveland works. They even understand how New York City works, but they can't figure Washington out.

We shall either adopt a plan which will meet the problem of unemployment under capitalism or a plan will be adopted for us which will operate without capitalism.

I can't speak for the OPC. I'm all balled up on all these initials.

Politicians always seek a pain-free solution to economic problems, and the economists keep reminding us that there is no such thing.