Quotes About Politics

A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically need strong and decisive action.

On the other hand, countries that democratized early, before they established modern administrations, found themselves developing clientelistic public sectors.

Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (New York: Basic Books, 2012).

At the end of Trump's term, what I've learned is that I really don't understand America well at all.

in some sense, it was the tyranny of cousins that allowed Indians to resist the tyranny of tyrants.

Social democracy, one of the dominant forces shaping Western European politics in the two generations following World War II, has been in retreat.

In societies where most politicians are corrupt, singling one out for punishment is often not a sign of reform but of a power grab.

If modern science made possible weapons of unprecedented destructiveness like the machine gun and the bomber, modern politics created a state of unprecedented power, for which a new word, totalitarianism, had to be coined.

The desire to pass resources on to kin is one of the most enduring constants in human politics.

the struggle to replace "tribal" politics with a more impersonal form of political relationships continues in the twenty-first century.

Some statesmen have been tagged as having great 'foresight' in their deliberations and activities. Are there any historical records of outstanding statesmen as possessing 'sight' in the ninth, tenth or double digit degree in their particular category of achievement?

The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

The same politicians who demand the abolition of all impediments to the mobility of goods and services have been busily erecting mighty barriers to rebuff an accompanying wave of human beings. In

the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

El centro de la telaraña, según nos van a revelar los estudios de caso más adelante, eran las relaciones personales, privadas, del jefe del grupo o responsable del país con los más altos niveles del Estado y los partidos, y también, en el caso del jefe de proyectos, con los niveles medios y bajos de la red.

En 1986, en momentos que representaban las nuevas fuerzas del periodo post oligárquico, la prensa acuñó el término «doce apóstoles» de la economía peruana cuando los doce mayores empresarios fueron convocados por el presidente Alan García para discutir el rumbo que el país debía tomar.

One thing that I am sure of... is that whatever the contingencies that may arise, wherever I am there will be no Communism

La corrupción política es el padre y la madre de la expansión de la violencia organizada en México»

en México «hay un pacto de impunidad tácito entre los políticos». Los políticos no investigan a otros políticos;

Para combatir la ilegalidad generalizada, México necesita políticos comprometidos con la ley. Por desgracia, ahora tiene un presidente que ha defendido públicamente el asesinato y la violación como usos legítimos de la fuerza.

En el horizonte lo que se vislumbra es el fascismo y la única forma de evitarlo, de caer en esas arenas movedizas, es recuperando el humanismo.

Cárdenas se convirtió en el nuevo Porfirio Díaz. Imposible que se moviera una hoja de papel sin su autorización, y sin embargo pasó a la historia como el salvador