Politics
Results of the Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 in North Karelia:
- Social Democratic Party 26.4%
- Centre Party 26.2%
- True Finns 23.1%
- National Coalition Party 10.5%
- Green League 5.4%
- Left Alliance 4.2%
- Christian Democrats 2.8%
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)