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“Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.”

“The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.”

Years Political Literature Belief Behinds Theory Scene Ultimate Lays Revolutionary Explanation Disposition Controversy

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.”

Political Social Constitution Crisis Finals Corruption Evident Colonists

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.”

World Firsts Ideas War Political Century Revolution Currents Civil War Sovereignty Canon English Speaking

Author:Bernard Bailyn

“Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.”

Trying Ideas Government Political Economy Information Flow Fuel Threatening Political Power Cyberspace Authoritarian Government

Author:Ian Bremmer

“State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.”

States Government Political Social Economic Activity Capitalism Gains Stronger Intelligent Safety Spending Regulation Emergencies Dominance Implementation Safety Net Government Spending

Author:Ian Bremmer

“Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.”

Ifs Knows Want Important Problem Political Ability Answers Issues Position Scientist Paid Analysts Political Issues

Author:Ian Bremmer

“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.”

Hands Political Values Humanity Fall Technology Risk Economic Instruments Superstitions Extensions Economic Power

Author:Nicola Cabibbo

“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.”

“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”

World Reason Political Powerful Leader Century Periods Enlightenment Europe Tradition Roots Employed Better Place Political Leaders

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.”

Believe Government Political Conditions Productions Host Closets Remarks Epitaph Parasites

Author:Ilana Mercer

“[We should] set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and [we] can not let these problems hand on from generation to generation.”

Should Problem Hands Eye Political Differences Steps Generations Chinese Can Not Taiwan Political Differences

Author:Xi Jinping

“The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.”

Facts Shows America Political President Interest Party Security Information Willing Safe Gains Trusted Political Parties Classified Information

Author:Howard Dean

“My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.”

Should Ends States Political Nations Interest Common Essentials Europe Should Have Responsible Objectives Executives Parliament Council Chamber Millennium Common Interests Federation

Author:Jacques Delors

“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.”

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Author:Lawrence Lessig

“There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not sure that I agree. But I am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.”

People Ifs Needs Political Strong Interest Talking Cutting Media Amount Agree Enormous Not Sure Opposing Advertisements

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life.”

Government America Political Wealth Aspect Tools Expensive Toys Private Life

Author:Mark Skousen

“Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.”

Done Political Rocks Eating Yesterday Rock N Roll Political Activism

Author:Patti Smith

“One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.”

Ifs Looks Made Problem Political Guy Names Heaven Chance White Sake Snow Political Correctness Correctness White Guys Npr Kipling

Author:Tony Snow

“In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.”

Political Struggle Daggers Too Deep Political Struggle

Author:Jack Valenti

“Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .”

Political Life Is Social Political Life Diffusion Mendacity

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“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.”

People School Political Culture Known Blessed London Britain Preps Political Culture

Author:David Brooks

“Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.”

Giving Doe Political Terrorism Immigrants Fbi Intimidating Preventing Monitoring Dissidents

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.”

Made Political Interest Doubt Conflict Blind Made It No Doubt Voters Senate Blindness Qualified Conflict Of Interest Blind Trust

Author:Kathleen Clark

“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”

Government Political Politics Freedom Teach History Conservative

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.”

Ideas Political Clarification

Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.”

Mean Matter Philosophy Political Views Study Subjects Son Citizens Point Of View Treatment Qualified Introduction Political Philosophy Subject Matter Adjectives Political Life Philosophic

Author:Leo Strauss

“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.”

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Author:Gene Sharp

“For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.”

School Political Order Individual Social Interest Function Conservative Disguise Socialist Axioms

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.”

People Political Rich Movement Revolution Regard Uncomfortable Political Movements Hopes Up

Author:Adolfo Bioy Casares

“I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.”

Political Loss Serious Consequence

Author:Ugo Cavallero

“I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).”

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.”

Political Leader Century Political Leaders Greatest Political

Author:Gianfranco Fini

“Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.”

Firsts Political Greek Favour

Book:Alexander The Great

Source: Alexander The Great

“Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.”

Political Artist Musician Insight Contribution Detached Political Life

Author:Gilberto Gil

“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.”

World States Political Existence Economy Modern Mutual Interaction Parallels Modern World Political Economy

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations