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I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.
A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.
The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.
Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.
Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.
I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.
Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.
To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.
The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.
Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.
I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries.
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.
States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.
I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.
It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.
U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.
Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.