Modern Politics Quotes

We want to have a conversation about what does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century and how do we go about creating that kind of a society.

We are no longer facing a contest betweenDemocracy and Communism. The conflict today is between Democracy and authoritarianism.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

Jefferson, Madison and Washington could not survive in today’s political environment.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

The trouble with modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

Parties from principle, especially abstract, speculative principle, are known only to modern times, and are, perhaps, the most extraordinary and unaccountable phenomenon, that has yet appeared in human affairs.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

With the unwitting help of our modern Liberal leadership, Communism has now taken all but complete control of mankind.

The time has come for political campaigning, its techniques and strategies, to move out of the dark ages and into the brave new world of the omnipresent eye,

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned from it.

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

The trouble [with modern political campaigns] is that the technicians of the media and the professional campaign advisors believe that the negative commercials and the attack work better.