David Lampton Quotes
Governments can derive their authority from three sources: tradition, the qualities and charisma of an individual leader, and constitutional and legal norms.
David Lampton, Author and Political Scientist, “How China Is Ruled”, Foreign Affairs, January / February 2014
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Adams was so concerned with this point that he actually would appeared when he was Vice President to preside over the Senate debate on ceremony wearing his sword.
See Charles James Fox, John Milton, Grover Cleveland, George Mason, Henry Clay, Benjamin Disraeli and Woodrow Wilson for similar expressions of this idea.
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been attacked by terrorists. The Vice President and other White House senior staff had followed procedure and gone to the protected bunker in the basement of the White House. Cheney was right in that he and the President instituted many illegal practices and taking power from Congress and the Courts. However, the things they elected to do to skirt if not defy the law, were not even good policy and Cheney and Bush became the “government of men” but the result was one of the worst and least popular administrations.
David M. Lampton (born 1946) is George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies as the founding director of its Chinese Studies Program. Prior to 1988, Dr. Lampton was founding director of the China Policy Program at the American Enterprise Institute and associate professor of political science at Ohio State University where he started his academic career in 1974. After serving as Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center (2019-2020), he returned to SAIS where he is Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute. In 2020, with co-authors Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik, he published Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press), on PRC high-speed rail construction in eight Southeast Asian states.
