'The Conservatives have become an inward- looking party of the English outer suburbs and southern English shires, and their shrinkage is creating a quiet crisis within their ranks.'

---Will Hutton.

'But the real lesson of Weimar and Cabaret..may be that the ultimately depraving seductions are those of the right. Money, power and those simple solutions that lend themselves so well to propaganda...To defend a liberal democracy and insist on civil society against the easy moral hatreds of ideologues may be difficult. But it is essential.'

--Lisa Appignanesi.

'What really counts is the fact that the Israeli electorate is still dominated by hypernationalist, in some cases proto-fascist, figures.'

---D. Shulman.

“I don’t think the Bible says anything about democracy.”

---Sheldon Adelson.