Political Entity Quotes

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

We are told the Republican party is a machine. Yes. A government is a machine.... the school system of the State of New York is a machine; a political party is a machine.

How is the Empire?

At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate.

I too am a government.

I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The United States is a fake country.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Washington is too small to be a nation but too large to be an insane asylum.

President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming....Why doesn't President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

… that remarkable body, the most remarkable of all the inventions of modern politics.