Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is. ”

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system. ”

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. ”

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. ”

Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed. ”

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence. ”

The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters. ”

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern. ”

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is. ”

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. ”