#pol

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#catching #groups #intolerant #parties #political

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#elizabeth #elizabeth i #giving #had #her

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ideology #mind #political #political ideology #science

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#elder #election #fastest #lose #politician

Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#come #community-based #congress #different #different things

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#both #consequences #discussion #function #genuine

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#functions #insisting #making #mistake #monopoly

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#communication #define #elite #formula #may