Quotes about "Politics & Government"

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. ”

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct. ”

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. ”

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses. ”

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. ”

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware. ”

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. ”

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. ”

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. ”

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. ”