John Jay Chapman Quotes

… the science of government is an experimental science, and that, like all other experimental sciences, it is generally in a state of progression. No man is so obstinate an admirer of the old times as to deny that medicine, surgery, botany, chemistry, engineering, navigation, are better understood now than in any former age. We conceive that it is the same with political science

I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

I hold them [politics] to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy.

I used to be of the opinion that it didn't matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin'. Which is true, but politics are still important.

I never took a political science course.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

It's a funny thing, I think people meet us and they assume that we know a lot more about politics than we actually do. People will really get into it. I'm like, I don't really know a lot about tariff reform or export trade reform. That's really not something I know about.

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.