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“It’s like skating over an enormous globe of thin ice. You have to keep moving fast all the time.”
Sayfa 194
In America, candidates can use parties when they are helpful in campaigns and abandon parties when they are an electoral hindrance, the opposite of the candidate-party relationship in most nations.
Sayfa 733
Tony Blair was elected Labour leader because he did not talk or look like an ordinary Labour Party member.
Sayfa 178
Among the world’s other democratic governments, only Israel spends as high a proportion of its budget on defence as the United States.
Sayfa 740
Bribery is quite rare in everyday American politics, since most interest groups and public officials have decided that giving or taking bribes is either too immoral, too risky, or both.
Sayfa 726
Winston Churchill
“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
Sayfa 196
Other international comparisons show that U.S. per capita expenditures on healthcare are by far the highest in the world, followed at some distance by Switzerland and Germany. And in proportion of the GDP spent on education, the United States (with 7.3 percent) ranks second behind South Korea (8.2 percent) and ahead of Denmark (7.1 percent), Iceland (6.7 percent), and Sweden (6.5 percent).
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The proportion of the nations GDP spend on public welfare programs is lower than that in most industrialized nations.
Sayfa 741