Quotes about "Politics & Government"

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and political system. ”

None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line. ”

My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate. ”

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution. ”

Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution. ”

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political. ”

Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections. ”

Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector. ”

Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left. ”

Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute. ”