Home / Topics / Political Quotes

Political Quotes

Browse 12684 quotes about Political.

Political Quotes

“Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.”

Wells Political Class Western Killing Educated Georgia

Author:Mikhail Saakashvili

“What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.”

Wells Made Political Sides Class Study Economic Middle Mark Terrorist Educated Analysis Middle Class Statistics Drivers Economist Persuasive Well Educated Princeton Question Mark

Author:Thomas P.M. Barnett

“Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.”

Knows Want Wells Political Simple Information Scientist Complexes Arguing Educated Impulse Complexity Exposed Strain Leftists

Book:Coping: On the Practice of Government

Source: Coping: On the Practice of Government

“It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.”