Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. V

[Vissegaard]

"Other viewpoints are to be tolerated, yes, that is the essence of liberalism. Except when it come to politics. Why should we tolerate the existence of political positions and ideals which we see as abhorrent?
One of the core purposes of a political party is to strive to implement its policies."
--- Ronald-Robert Whitehall, NMP MP

"Therefore, Auroyan liberalism equals totality."
- Hiram III.

[Auroya]

"Therefore, Auroyan liberalism equals totality."
- Hiram III.

...Social liberalism, if you could try not to misinterpret what I was saying, thank you very much. It is hardly within our political power to actually destroy other political parties or to silence certain viewpoints; what I was saying is that any political party, us included, will only strive to achieve the implementation of its polices and, by extension, ensure that the policies of no other party are implemented.

We're no different; we just happen to be the most powerful party.

And sorry, but you do not strike me as one to criticise the idea of totality anyway."

--- Ronald-Robert Whitehall, NMP MP

[San Andreas Republic]

"Ah, nigga, don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful, nigga. Maybe if you got rid of that old yee-yee ass haircut you got you'd get some bitches on your dick. Oh, better yet, maybe Tanisha'll call your dog-ass if she ever stop fuckin' with that brain surgeon or lawyer she fucking with. Nigga..."

- Lamar Davis

[Bereia]

"I don't think my wealth makes me special. I put my pants on each morning one leg at a time, just like everybody else. Then when my pants are on, I make hundreds of millions building cars."

-- Reagan Schaeffer, Founder & CEO, New Haven Motors.

[Auroya]

"Come on now, Ms. Thatcher, do go and try to explain to a crying child why her father won't go back to work; and why they'll from now live on the poverty line thanks to your welfare cuts."

--- Emperor Isaac III, 1980s state visit to the United Kingdom

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"A politician who cannot feel compassion is one who will have none of my respect. It is one of our core human feelings. It is one of the feelings that makes us human, even. One cannot run a society and be cold, for that way lies misery instead of happiness; fear instead of hope; doubt and uncertainty."

--- Lady Evelyn v. Crimsonstein, NMP Party Leader

[Bereia]

"Temper your passion with reason, or it will overtake you."

-- President J. Calvin Holbrook.

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"The subsidization of unproductive industries is a ball and chain on the ankle of the rest of the nation as it tries to move forward."

-- President Henry Laurens.

[Rothuria]

"Profanity is the lingual crutch for the inarticulate."

Linguistics Professor, University of Fëlinda

[Bereia]

"I would have thought I had made it clear, at this stage, that I am not seeking higher office, but the people speculating on a possible Senate race when the current President leaves office shows me it isn't quite clear, at least to some people. The ones who think I'll be trying for the Presidency are the worst."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"Welfare cuts and attacks on employee's ability to bargain collectively are detrimental to growth. They both destroy the negotiating power of workers, meaning their wages fall, meaning demand in the economy and consumer confidence falls, meaning recession. You end up with a poorer and poorer majority, and an increasingly small number of rich capitalists at the top, grinning inanely at how much they've managed to cut their wage bills… And yet wondering why their coffers aren't getting fuller, why their number of potential customers is falling. And you end up with a system in which hard work no longer rewards, where the only way to make money is through the investment of capital, through the world of finance, real estate, and selling credit to people who are earning so little they need exorbitant payday loans to cover a single unexpected bill.
It's no surprise that 35 years of monetarist, conservative governance and austerity in the west has coincided with consistently falling wages, rising personal debts, decreasing socio-economic elasticity and widening wealth gaps.
To cut a long story short: Welfare cuts are a very expensive way of giving petty people a bit of schadenfreude, and in hard times like these, we simply can't afford them."

-Now-Prime Minister Flossy Bourne in a pre-election debate 2010

[Barraco Barner]

"Welfare cuts and attacks on employee's ability to bargain collectively are detrimental to growth. They both destroy the negotiating power of workers, meaning their wages fall, meaning demand in the economy and consumer confidence falls, meaning recession. You end up with a poorer and poorer majority, and an increasingly small number of rich capitalists at the top, grinning inanely at how much they've managed to cut their wage bills… And yet wondering why their coffers aren't getting fuller, why their number of potential customers is falling. And you end up with a system in which hard work no longer rewards, where the only way to make money is through the investment of capital, through the world of finance, real estate, and selling credit to people who are earning so little they need exorbitant payday loans to cover a single unexpected bill.
It's no surprise that 35 years of monetarist, conservative governance and austerity in the west has coincided with consistently falling wages, rising personal debts, decreasing socio-economic elasticity and widening wealth gaps.
To cut a long story short: Welfare cuts are a very expensive way of giving petty people a bit of schadenfreude, and in hard times like these, we simply can't afford them."

-Now-Prime Minister Flossy Bourne in a pre-election debate 2010

"Sounds like...uh...my buddy, Adolf, except no German, uh, support."

The Most High-Bama

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"Welfare cuts and attacks on employee's ability to bargain collectively are detrimental to growth. They both destroy the negotiating power of workers, meaning their wages fall, meaning demand in the economy and consumer confidence falls, meaning recession. You end up with a poorer and poorer majority, and an increasingly small number of rich capitalists at the top, grinning inanely at how much they've managed to cut their wage bills… And yet wondering why their coffers aren't getting fuller, why their number of potential customers is falling. And you end up with a system in which hard work no longer rewards, where the only way to make money is through the investment of capital, through the world of finance, real estate, and selling credit to people who are earning so little they need exorbitant payday loans to cover a single unexpected bill.
It's no surprise that 35 years of monetarist, conservative governance and austerity in the west has coincided with consistently falling wages, rising personal debts, decreasing socio-economic elasticity and widening wealth gaps.
To cut a long story short: Welfare cuts are a very expensive way of giving petty people a bit of schadenfreude, and in hard times like these, we simply can't afford them."

-Now-Prime Minister Flossy Bourne in a pre-election debate 2010

"Sounds like...uh...my buddy, Adolf, except no German, uh, support."

The Most High-Bama

"Hitler ate sugar."

-Manny McMan.

[Auroya]

"The Auroyan Empire operates a system of 'minimum income' instead of individual benefits. What does this mean? It means that the government will ensure you have a minimum yearly income, and this is absolutely universal. If you are earning nothing we will pay you this full sum. If you are earning something we will pay you this sum minus your earnings... if you are earning above this sum we don't need to pay it any longer. Of course it is not fixed - if you must provide for children, if you must care for others, or so forth, you deserve more, and we recognise that.

Don't screech so loudly about your 'dependency culture'. Let me tell you something - not one Auroyan I or my sister have ever met actually wishes to live on welfare alone. This is not because we are stuck-up nobility, this is because this dependency culture is largely non-existant. Nobody wants to make welfare a lifestyle when they can see all these other amazing options open to them - opened by social mobility.

Now, this is one of the most meritocratic policies to be implemented and one of the most beneficial for the economy and for the individual. If you wish for an example closer to home, there was an experiment conducted in a small region of Canada studying exactly this policy. Over the course of this experiment the economy of this region almost doubled, and that is not a coincidence.

Because you know what this does? This allows people to aspire. You don't need to force people to aspire - there is a natural drive within us to do so. After all, employment was at a record high in the United Kingdom before Thatcher came to power, when the welfare system then was very comfortable. It was because people felt pride in their work, like they were contributing something. Policies that try to force people to do so are misguided. Instead, focus your efforts on making sure that this aspiration will pay as much as possible. This allows people to put work aside and instead concentrate on, say, pursuing a high degree of education, without needing to worry about working at the same time just to finance their lives. Public education is entirely subsidized at all levels in this country anyway, but we do recognize that people can't study on a pitiful income. Now don't you tell me that such a policy does not pay off in a massive way over time, because statistics are entirely against you if you do.

In the end, when combined with our other policies, the results are exceptional. The Auroyan Empire has amongst the best social mobilty ratings in the world - and we're a monarchy, for crying out loud. My country has a very highly educated population and workforce, and our academic, technological and scientific achievements reflect that. Right now, there are Auroyan men and women in orbit around our fair world constructing a ship to Saturn with two other space agencies - men and women that were not born wealthy or privileged, but men and women who had the desire to be the pioneers of a new dawn. All that we had to do was provide them with the means. Such social mobility brings great job satisfaction, because you know that you will never be stuck with a job you do not enjoy.

Such is Auroyan civilisation."

--- Lady Evelyn v. Crimsonstein, NMP Party Leader

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"400,000 Britons were unemployed the day that the Conservative Party hired actors to pose as a long queue in front of a dole office for those famous 'Labour Isn't Working' electoral posters… The initial plan was to take photos of a genuine dole queue… But they couldn't find any.
More than 4,500,000 were unemployed a decade later, when Thatcher's policies were in full swing.

Funny that."

-Cub reporter Squirts Macintosh, reflecting on the nature of political campaigning

[Auzkhia]

"I am not a politician, I am a leader."
-Emperor Karl II

[Auroya]

"Walk to the peak of the Spire Hills which tower over the north of Crystmont on a clear, black night. There will be thick forest there, thick pine forests that sometimes lead up right to the edge of the ridges. Below you will be the capital, a sea of light; somewhere there will be the Imperial Palace and the Houses of Parliament, and so forth.

But walk beyond that. The peak is a few kilometers from the city; and from there turn your gaze skyward; stare into the inky star-sown blackness that is forever and infinite.

And when you do, you will know the gates of the wonderworld are opening in our time."

--- Evangeline Monty, IASA Royal Administrator

[Vissegaard]

"Therefore, Auroyan liberalism equals totality."
- Hiram III.

...Social liberalism, if you could try not to misinterpret what I was saying, thank you very much. It is hardly within our political power to actually destroy other political parties or to silence certain viewpoints; what I was saying is that any political party, us included, will only strive to achieve the implementation of its polices and, by extension, ensure that the policies of no other party are implemented.
We're no different; we just happen to be the most powerful party.
And sorry, but you do not strike me as one to criticise the idea of totality anyway."
--- Ronald-Robert Whitehall, NMP MP

"Dear sir, you said you were not tolerant of the other opinions (should I quote you: 'Why should we tolerate the existence of political positions and ideals which we see as abhorrent?'). Do you know what means? Being tolerant means that you don't silence nor destroy your opposition. So you've lied either now or then."
- Hiram III.

[Meepcraftia]

"What do you consider to be the greatest aspect of your nation?"

"Well... I would have to say... the irony in the nation's pretitle. I love being the 'sociopathic dictator' that rules over a nation with good civil rights and superb political freedoms. The best thing, though, is when people stare funny at me because of that.
- Prime Minister Paul Lingot in response to an interview question.

[Bojikami]

"...And it is in this, our darkest hour, this nation needs not the petty squabbles of politicians, but it must be united under one leader, under one party, and under one front."
-Anthony Regovishki, 1941, upon suspending the constitution of Bojikami. It was not unsuspended until 1985.

[Ardavia]

"...And it is in this, our darkest hour, this nation needs not the petty squabbles of politicians, but it must be united under one leader."
-Anthony Regovishki, 1941, upon suspending the constitution of Bojikami. It was not unsuspended until 1985.

"That is one hell of a long hour."

~Anon Citizen, being his usual stupid self

[Interstellar America]

"...And it is in this, our darkest hour, this nation needs not the petty squabbles of politicians, but it must be united under one leader."
-Anthony Regovishki, 1941, upon suspending the constitution of Bojikami. It was not unsuspended until 1985.

"That is one hell of a long hour."

~Anon Citizen, being his usual stupid self

"Doesn't have shit on us, suspended in 2014, it's currently 2204." - Anon. American

[Fatatatutti]

Customer: "This Bacon-Wrapped Elephant.... Does it contain much elephant?"
Waitress: "Well, isn't a whole elephant."
Customer: How much elephant is it?"
Waitress: "Not very much."
-- conversation heard surprisingly often in Fatatatutian restaurants (There is some doubt whether many elephant dishes contain any elephant at all.)

[Greater Mackonia]

"I see welfare spending as merely a testament to the failure of education in the West. Under any true Meritocratic government the excuse of unequal opportunity will not exist, all will have the opportunity to succeed and those who don't or can't due to their natural stupidity deserve to be left for dead not showered with treasures."

-Lithastir Mythurin, on relocating most of the Social Welfare budget to Education...not that he really has the official power to do that.

[Saurisisia]

"One advantage of having Congressional elections being open to only one party and to my position being appointable: no petty squabbling over artificial lines in the sand drawn by political parties."
~ President Hadro Ironhorn

[Auzkhia]

"One advantage of having Congressional elections being open to only one party and to my position being appointable: no petty squabbling over artificial lines in the sand drawn by political parties."
~ President Hadro Ironhorn

"So, one party state? We kind of have that. Even so, the mostly partisan Abgeordnetenhaus is kept under control by the non-partisan Herrenhaus and Kaiser."
-The Bureaucrat

[Greater Mackonia]

"The greatest enemy of every Republic is the man who would suspend its Laws smiling."

-Lyserion Assyphius, 1st Premier of Greater Mackonia.

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"He was certainly a tragic figure, the archetypal frustrated reformer to set the standard for the likes of Soleso and Alvexion in later years. He was originally a lawyer, studied in Europe, came back and became engaged in Political activity of the Republican nature very early in his career leading to several arrests. While in prison for plotting to assassinate the Kaiser his views became softer and he came to believe the only way to legitimately free Mackonia was through democracy. He founded the National Democratic Party, dividing the Nationalist support base and making him a hated figure on the right for some time, he was a lonely figure in Mackonian politics, unlike most of the Nationalists he loved and respected human (read: Western) culture, arguably more than most of the assimilated, he viewed the Socialists with a mixture of contempt and humour and fervently believed in the sovereignty of the people despite regularly choosing to ignore them. In 1922 he returned from exile in America (due to another dubious assassination plot) and effectively drafted the new constitution singlehandedly, it was only natural that he should become the first Premier of the new Republic. Alas the Mackonian people had other ideas and preferred the blood and thunder rhetoric of the Republican People's Party and the more radical Nationalists. Thus leaving Lyserion the beleaguered head of a minority government forced into a toxic Republican-Nationalist coalition, over the course of his reign he quarrled often with the House of Powers and was thus forced to resort to frequently using his Emergency Powers and Premierial Veto to dictate the law as he pleased. This naturally caused quite a deal of resentment from all parts of the political spectrum and 1920s Mackonia was not an easy place to govern with ecological and economic hardship coupled with backwards infrastructure and political instability. In 1930 he was assassinated by Socialist Revolutionaries, the godfather of Mackonian Liberalism become its first Dictator."

-Tyserthi Masjin Franz Mikhail Matthias Ludwig Nikolai von Sulswasig Alexander Erasmus Maximilian Rasmarth-Myrzeroth. Remembering Lyserion Assyphius.