Carroll Quigley Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Years, Ideas

• Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Two, People

  "The Overton Window". Book by Carroll Quigley, June 15, 2010.

• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Ideas, Two

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

• When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Political, Would Be

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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