Political Science Quotes

• The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Nice, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

  Sara Paretsky

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

  Bianca Jagger

  Careers, Political, Would Be

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• There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

  William C. Kirby

  Political, Taiwan, Definitions

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• My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

  David Soul

  Teacher, Father, Hero

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a Political Science major.

  Harry Shearer

  Science, Political, Majors

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mother, Feminist, Parent

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• I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

  Joe Biden

  Political, Delaware, University

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

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• From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Race, Two, Perfect

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• The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

  Mario Cuomo

  Philosophy, Party, People

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• We need a new political science for a new world.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Political, Needs, World

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Jennifer Pitts (2001). “Writings on Empire and Slavery”, p.11, JHU Press

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• People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

  Michael Howard

  Government, Law, People

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• Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

  Harold Lasswell

  Science, Political, Taxidermy

  Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

  Giambattista Vico

  Wise, Political, Study

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• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Equality, Men

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.160, Aristotle

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• Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Night, Thinking, Media

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• A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Philosophy, Reality, Political

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• I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

  Jay Roach

  Law, People, Political

  Source: collider.com

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• So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Political, Marketing

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.

  Noam Chomsky

  Support, Political, Election

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

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• Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

  Joshua Marston

  Photography, Political, Gathering

  Source: collider.com

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• Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Law, Laughing

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• Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

  Allan Bloom

  Art, Creativity, Men

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