Portal:Scotland/Selected quote/Week 50, 2013

... Cynicism, together with unrealistic expectation, are the two great bugbears of politics ...
 * &mdash; Donald Dewar

... There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty ...
 * &mdash; John Boyd Orr