Alternative Governance Quotes

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.

It they do not succeed with the Constitution, then they must succeed without it.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive.

John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

You would be wrong to assume democracy would be the only alternative if the old regimes [in the Middle East] fell. There is a much better-organized alternative already waiting, and that is ... fundamentalism.

The democratic system prevailing in the world does not suit us ...

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

I would not want it to be thought that any system is the Kingdom of God on Earth. Capitalism isn’t. Democracy isn’t. The two combined are not. The best that can be said for them (and it is quite enough) is that, in combination, capitalism, democracy, and pluralism are more protective of the rights, opportunities, and conscience of ordinary citizens (all citizens) than any known alternative.

Mexico City is being used as a laboratory to send the message throughout the rest of Mexico that the Left can govern. That here, it can be different, and it can actually get things under control and provide an alternative to the National Action Party and its conservative views.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.