I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion no political party and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way ours is merely another way.

When we blindly adopt a religion a political system a literary dogma we become automatons. We cease to grow.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries and that's allocated according to political muscle.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround culture the political matrix technology etc. and the internal human consciousness.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.