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Political Quotes by Rick Perlstein
- It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex…
- Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or the other of…
- Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
- My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle