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Political Scientist Inspirational Quotes (5667)

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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Ernest Gellner
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.
Michael Parenti
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There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Ian Bremmer
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We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.
Jeff Sessions
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The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called the permanent things-the norms of human action.
Russell Kirk
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I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
Rory Stewart
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The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.
George Friedman
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.
Fareed Zakaria
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Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.
George F. Kennan
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I just want to help people do better research.
Andrew Gelman
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Leo Rosten
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Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.
Robert Reich
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Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
Andrew Bacevich
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I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.
Andrew Bacevich
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As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
Andrew Bacevich
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You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome.
Andrew Bacevich
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Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
Andrew Bacevich
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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.
Andrew Bacevich
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A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
Vladimir Yakunin
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I do want to be very clear: I see our nuclear deterrent as absolutely core insurance for our national security.
Andrea Leadsom
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For me what we need is a great deal of fiscal stimulus to show the UK is open for business. We need to upskill our workforce. I'm very much in tune with the work our chancellor is doing.
Andrea Leadsom
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For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.
Andrea Leadsom
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The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?
Andrea Leadsom
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Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.
Andrea Leadsom
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