Quotes About Politics

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs.

What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters — specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.

First, altruism and morality generally are consumption goods like any other, so we should expect people to buy more altruism when the price is low.34 Second, due to the low probability of decisiveness, the price of altruism is drastically cheaper in politics than in markets.35 Voting to raise your taxes by a thousand dollars when your probability of decisiveness is 1 in 100,000 has an expected cost of a penny.

It is irrational to be politically well-informed because the low returns from data simply do not justify their cost in time and other resources.

Irrationality in politics is not a puzzle. It is precisely what an economic theory of irrationality predicts.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

You punish liars? In my world, we elect them to public office.

Even in modern Chinese, the word for "revolution" (as in "Cultural Revolution") is gémìng , which is literally "stripping of the mandate.

Q: Why did blondes vote for Clinton? A: They didn't know how to read and thought she can make their life hilarious!

Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Don't underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake.

Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate

Pela arte foi criado esse grande Leviatã denominado Comunidade ou Estado - (em latim, Civitas) que não é mais que um homem artificial". THOMAS HOBBES. SENTENÇA DE ABERTURA DO "LEVIATÔ.

22 Emily's Letters After the Suez fiasco, Great Britain and France were no longer serious players in the Middle East, and Israel was tarred as their co-conspirator in a failed last gasp of imperialism.

There are good and bad things in all political systems.

Now I'm not a Nazi, I've never said the Führer is a thousand percent right. But he's a winner, damn it all. He gets things done, like Roosevelt. And you want us to get rid of him?

A democracy in a backward or unstable country simply gets smashed by the best-organized power gang.

Political indifference is closely linked to ethical depravity.

es propio de gente cuerda y política, porque bien claro está que si ellas no lo quisiesen de veras nunca hubieran sido robadas.

to me it sounded more like a pack of thieves making a deal, but then to me no human activity is so reliably boring and shabby as politics.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.