Quotes About Politics

huggers and the politicians in Washington. Still others posted links to gun dealer sites and local gun ranges providing training on tactical fire and maneuver techniques used by the military.

Campaigning and governing are not the same at all. It's easy to say what's wrong with government; it's harder to fix it, and progress can be very slow.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

Public health is not an ideology, religion, or political perspective—indeed, history demonstrates that whenever such forces interfere with or influence public health activities a general worsening of the populace's well-being usually followed.

Durante los años noventa el relato era un requisito imprescindible para cualquier proyecto político: y el relato consistía en explicar por qué un movimiento político o un partido merecía tomarse en serio y por qué valía la pena creer y difundir sus mensajes esenciales.

Maquiavelo—, representados en la fuerza y la astucia.

Lippmann entendía que la «persuasión» iba a ser una modalidad profesional relevante en los años siguientes, como «un arte sutil y un órgano regular del gobierno popular». Y añadió algo que en general se subestimó: «Ninguno de nosotros alcanza a comprender las consecuencias, pero no es una profecía muy arriesgada decir que saber cómo conseguir la sumisión de la gente guiará todas las premisas políticas».

las políticas racionales podían imponerse a la guerra, pero siempre estaban compitiendo con las ciegas fuerzas naturales de la «violencia, el odio y la enemistad»,

Clausewitz aceptaba que los objetivos militares deberían ser fijados por los políticos.

Así pues, el territorio de la estrategia es la negociación y la persuasión, al igual que las amenazas y la presión, se recurre tanto a los efectos psicológicos como a los físicos, y a las palabras como a los hechos. Esta es la razón por la que la estrategia es el arte esencial de la política. Y se trata de conseguir de una situación concreta más de lo que el equilibrio inicial de fuerzas podría sugerir. Es el arte de crear poder.

The core proposition was that a minority would always rule over a majority.

Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover

For the first time that evening, a small idea was uttered by the representative of this extraordinary company. Schmidt spoke of invigorating the Google PAC, and pushing harder to get their side of the issue better heard. And I thought, Wow. This is a Google solution to this, the most important problem facing this republic? This the most they can imagine?

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.

So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our government is a perfectly rational response to the government we have. The question isn't what we know. The question is what we're capable of knowing, and doing, if we have the right incentives, and the right opportunity.

We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money.

Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was considering. If the governor general had refused his request, he could have replaced her with a more compliant one, making the case to the Queen that the people of Canada were opposed in great numbers to a coalition replacing his government.

After I squirmed into the snakepit of national politics, I realized that a ruler must equate the unpredictable with the unreliable. The future was too important to leave to whim.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.