after a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.
John Ralston SaulMots clés politics
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.
John Ralston SaulMots clés politics
Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption and mismanagement of national resources.
Moutasem AlgharatiMots clés politics
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Tony BlairMots clés politics leadership decision-making
True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.
J.S.B. MorseMots clés politics human-rights rights founding-fathers coercion legislation inalienable
When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.
J.S.B. MorseMots clés politics morality philosophy libertarian
It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government. It's illegal to kill someone, unless you're the government. Private organizations can do everything that government can do except for legally break the law.
J.S.B. MorseMots clés politics government force human-rights rights libertarian unalienable-rights coercion
Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.
Robert B. ReichMots clés politics democracy change america united-states powerlessness mobilizing
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
Sonia SotomayorMots clés politics justice supreme-court
...no one should marvel at the ease with which Alexander [the Great] kept possession of Asia, or at the difficulties which others, like Pyrrhus and many more, had in preserving their conquests. The difference does not arise from the greater or lesser ability of the conqueror, but from dissimilarities in the conquered lands.
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