Political Rigidity Quotes

Britain is no longer in the politics of the pendulum, but of the ratchet.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion

The menace is ideology, the dogma of politics. It is a prison that makes the American experiment impossible.

The commonest error of politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

I have never found a Federalist over the age of 30 who has ever changed his mind about politics.

No Federalist over the age of 30 has ever changed his mind on anything

We are living in the jet-age, but we are governed by an Edwardian establishment mentality.

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Politicians are trapped in their own views.

There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.

Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no alternative to the present political and economic system.

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.