Carroll Quigley Quotes
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.
Quigley, Carroll. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. Macmillan, 1966, p. 1247.
He had just finished itemizing the poor economic performance of the Republicans under George W. Bush and comparing it with the thriving economy and millions of job opportunities created by the Democrats under William Clinton.
Carroll Quigley was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, and for his writing about global conspiracies, in which he argued that an Anglo-American banking elite have worked together for centuries to spread certain values globally.
