Quotes of: Graham Keyword

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Michael Schudson

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.

Robert A. Dahl

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Todd Gitlin

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

Bradley A. Smith

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

James Q. Wilson

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

William Julius Wilson

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Martha Beck

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

Zeresenay Alemseged

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Norman Ornstein

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

Saul Perlmutter

Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.

David J. C. MacKay

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Neil Gershenfeld

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Martha Beck

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

David Harvey

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

Geoffrey West