Mauricio Macri Quotes

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

Individuals do matter and personalities matter in politics. But if issues are sidestepped due to personalities, then that is very dangerous.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

I wouldn’t be too serious about bipartisanship. It’s a great myth that ought to be fostered. And don’t bring too damn much scholarship to bear on it. You’ll prove it out of existence if you’re not careful.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

Ideology knows no boundaries.

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the center and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down …

Politics is about explanations.

Vision is not political rhetoric