“But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.” SaidPoliticalCultureHappeningsCampaignsFinanceReformCampaign FinancePolitical CultureCampaign Finance Reform Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsHardPoliticalCultureHonestAdvantageTreatsWho I AmSincereSenatorsI Am Who I AmPolitical Culture Author:Joe Kyrillos
“For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.” ReasonFactsPoliticalCultureRepublicanAspectIdeologyRadicalThirstDominationDisturbingPolitical CultureThirst For Power Author:Al Gore
“Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.” PeopleSchoolPoliticalCultureKnownBlessedLondonBritainPrepsPolitical Culture Author:David Brooks
“All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism.” NeedsPoliticalCultureDegreesIncludingThemeFascismPowerlessPresent DayScapegoatPolitical Culture Author:Justin Raimondo
“Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.” ChristianLawPoliticalCultureReadingReligiousBordersCensorshipBiasQuotingPolitical Culture Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.” Has BeensTwoImportantLastsLawPoliticalCulturePerfectEnemyVirtueCenturyExpectationsUnderstoodConstitutionTerrorAbsenceTraditionalPublic LifeFramersPolitical Culture Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick