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Politics Quotes by David Brooks
- When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important…
- The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.
- I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of…
- Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the…
- The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past…
- America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests,…
- I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.
- If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of…
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle