I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the way to the Maine border on their first New Hampshire meet and greet. I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the elements memorized; rattle off the kings and queens of Spain; define the significance of the Gatling gun; joke around in Latin; interpret the symbolism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old; recite Emily Dickinson; bake a perfect popover; build a shortwave radio out of a coconut; and know all the words to Hoagy Carmichael's "Two Sleepy People," Johnny Cash's "Five Feet High and Rising," and "You Got the Silver" by the Rolling Stones. After all, the United States is the greatest country on earth dealing with the most complicated problems in the history of the world--poverty, pollution, justice, Jerusalem. What we need is a president who is at least twelve kinds of nerd, a nerd messiah to come along every four years, acquire the Secret Service code name Poindexter, install a Revenge of the Nerds screen saver on the Oval Office computer, and one by one decrypt our woes.
Sarah VowellStichwörter: politics intelligence patriotism patriotic opinion nerd nerds nerdiness politics-of-the-united-states
What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics".
Barack ObamaStichwörter: war politics-of-the-united-states
I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each other, including an essential lack of interest in the well-being of the turf on which they fought.
Peggy NoonanStichwörter: politics politics-of-the-united-states
But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.
Francis FukuyamaStichwörter: politics-of-the-united-states
It’s a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.
Paul RyanStichwörter: politics-of-the-united-states judeo-christian
I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.
Ronald ReaganStichwörter: politics-of-the-united-states
The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
Tiffany MadisonStichwörter: politics liberty freedom tyranny guns government-corruption founding-fathers self-defense second-amendment gun-control gun-rights gun-laws politics-of-the-united-states
Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.
Tiffany MadisonStichwörter: politics liberty freedom tyranny guns government-corruption resistance founding-fathers self-defense second-amendment gun-control gun-rights gun-laws politics-of-the-united-states
It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the "aristocratic" elements of the Constitution (as in other countries) have gradually disappeared or were washed away during the past two hundred years, while the monarchic powers of the presidency and the democratic extent of majority rule became more and more overwhelming.
John LukacsStichwörter: politics democracy u-s-presidents politics-of-the-united-states u-s-constitution
Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.
Jon KrakauerStichwörter: war politician politics-of-the-united-states
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