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  • One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

    "The Busy Life of Being a Lightning Rod for Bush" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.
  • It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

  • I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

  • No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then, what do we do about it? It's the biggest problem out there, in all western liberal societies.

    Kids   Class   Political  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

  • Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

    Source: www.neh.gov
  • I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

    "The Next Crusade" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2007.
  • I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

  • Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

    Witty   Equality   Men  
    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.160, Aristotle
  • We need a new political science for a new world.

    Political   Needs   World  
    Alexis de Tocqueville, Jennifer Pitts (2001). “Writings on Empire and Slavery”, p.11, JHU Press
  • The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have ever read. Betsy Sinclair shows just how strongly we are influenced to express ourselves politically by our family, neighbors, and friends. We are on the verge of a sea change in political science, and this will be one of the most important books we refer to when we describe what happened to the discipline in the twenty-first century.

    Book   Sea   Discipline  
  • Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

    Nature   Science   Law  
    John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.1092, e-artnow
  • The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.

    "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.
  • The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).

    Memories   Men   Profound  
    "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.
  • Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

    "To Anarchists". "Ithaca Journal", September 17, 1901.
  • There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

  • If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as an individual to maximize his own wealth in the market.

    Source: www.madre.org
  • A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

  • Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

    Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
  • Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

  • I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

  • Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

    Source: www.chicagomaroon.com
  • I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

    Art   Philosophy   Class  
    "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.
  • I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

  • It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

    Running   Mistake   Men  
    Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books
  • My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

  • I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

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