Political Cooperation Quotes
Diplomatic recognition of the People’s Republic of China was being debated. Many of Churchill’s Conservative Party Colleagues were opposed on the grounds that diplomatic relations gives a signal of legitimacy. In the U. S. this general issue is a constant source of political controversy when diplomatic relations and talks are considered with Iran, Cuba and North Korea.
Amrey was known for his colorful albeit exaggerated use of the English language. Exactly what the analogy meant in his unique lexicography no one really knows. other than the fact that Armey hated bipartisanship. His extremist views characterized all Democrats as "enemies" of the nation. Fortunately, his viewpoint is not the majority even within the Republican Party.
“Sectionalism” really referred to the North / South animosity which carried over from the Civil War. The South would hardly ever elect a Republican as it was the Republican Lincoln Government that ended slavery and put down their rebellion in the Civil War. There was a language difference that was much greater than modern times and the South was way behind most of the rest of the country in terms of education and standard of living. Every time the Federal Government would try and enforce the Constitution with respect to race, the sectional friction would break out again. The sectional issues carried into the 21st century but had gotten much better.
While Ben Gurion’s strategy has been successful with many Arab citizens of Israel, it has not been completely so that the standard of living of Israeli Arabs is on the average still not quite the equal of the Jewish citizens. For those Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, they have had the worst of both worlds—the occupation by Israel and dependence on the Palestinian Authority for economic development which has never occurred despite the fact that huge sums of money have gone to the Palestinian Authority for the purpose.
Despite statements like this, Harding’s Republican Party had an isolationist wing that made us very vulnerable in the Second World War.
The Tea Party Republicans did not agree about compromise of principles, nor did some Democratic liberals who were being asked to cave in on extending emergency unemployment insurance for long-term unemployed.
