Political Dynamics Quotes

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

Although every man in democracy thinks himself individually the equal of every other man, this makes it difficult to resist the collectivity of equal men. If all opinions are equal, then the majority of opinions, on the psychological analogy of politics, should hold sway.

Politics is history in the making.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

History is past politics, and politics present history.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

Politics is a like physics. Whatever goes up has to come down a little bit.

That's not how politics works - sometimes things move in a rather imperceptible way. There are no fireworks, and then comes a time when change comes unexpectedly. Sometimes change comes with a lot of fireworks, but not always.

When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.

You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.

Tectonic shifts in American politics take time—often a long time.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Jared Kushner is Ivanka Trump husband. Jared was instrumental in being kind of an overlay in kind of bringing Trump's genius down to the all the different parts of leadership.

You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.