Political Behavior Quotes

Law of Diminishing Returns: As the popularity of a candidate approaches zero, the probability that he or she will release a wildly bizarre video approaches 1.

Former Gov. Weld is that kind of guy who you can't predict what his next move will be.

I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.

At times, President Trump has behaved far worse than Nixon did.

I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been absolutely nonexistent maybe 15, 20 - by the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that's new.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Politicians are like horses, they cannot go properly without blinkers.

The Democrats are losing power in every election. And I think that's part of the panic. They want us to believe that the behavior and panic is rooted in an absolute outraged offense over this president that we have, this is just unacceptable and some maniac like Trump is so out of the ordinary, out of the norm, has to be stopped. I don't think that's what it is. I mean, it's part of it. But I think there's a much larger panic that is taking over the Democrat Party. And it's gonna implode on 'em.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

I can tell any liberal why he or she thinks what they think. I can predict to them what their reaction to any event or person is going to be, because I know them, because I have taken the time because I'm curious to study it. I know what liberalism is. I know from where it springs and derives, and I know the vast majority of people who are liberals, what they are going to do, say, and think about.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

I dedicate this book [The German Dictatorship] to the hope that a sober picture of the German dictatorship may help Germany avoid both old and new dangers, primarily the traditional authoritarian concept of the state, but also radical utopianism—both expressions of intolerance and conceit, and moreover, profoundly unpolitical modes of behavior

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

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