“Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.” GivingPoliticalFreedomPrinciplesPracticeDemocracyObjectionsDemocracies HaveVoting And DemocracyStiffness Author:Meg Greenfield
“If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.” IfsYearsFirstsMadePoliticalMotherPoliticsGoneRecordsPoliticianTerribleSixMurderPressesResponseStatementsThings To DoOpponentsTerrible Things Author:Meg Greenfield