G. Bingham Powell Gönderileri
G. Bingham Powell kitaplarını, G. Bingham Powell sözleri ve alıntılarını, G. Bingham Powell yazarlarını, G. Bingham Powell yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.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
“It’s like skating over an enormous globe of thin ice. You have to keep moving fast all the time.”
Sayfa 194
“Can it then be in the interests of the state to go against the policy of the government of the day?”
Sayfa 194
The vagueness of the constitution makes it flexible, a point that political leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair have exploited to increase their own power. In the words of a constitutional lawyer, J. A. G. Griffith, “The Constitution is what happens.”
Sayfa 184
Public opinion has opposed unlimited immigration, and both Labour and Conservative governments have passed laws trying to limit the number of immigrants. However, these laws contain many exceptions, and EU membership makes it difficult to restrict immigration from the continent of Europe. The government has tried to make deportation of illegal immigrants easier. Nonetheless, it admits that there are hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in Britain.
Sayfa 183
Tony Blair was elected Labour leader because he did not talk or look like an ordinary Labour Party member.
Sayfa 178
Every British Prime Minister claims a special relationship with the United States. Since the end of the Cold War, the emergence of the United States as a unique global force has made the relationship more attractive to Britain but less relevant to Washington.
Sayfa 176
Whereas the oldest British people have lived in the same political system all their lives, the oldest Germans have lived under at least four constitutions, two democratic and two undemocratic.
Sayfa 174
The clearest indication that the United States has moved away from the forefront of environmental regulation is the federal government’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement designed to stave off global warming by reducing emissions of “greenhouse gases’” such as carbon dioxide.
Sayfa 743
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).
(...)
The proportion of the nations GDP spend on public welfare programs is lower than that in most industrialized nations.
Sayfa 741
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
Divided government apparently does not significantly weaken (or strengthen) the federal government’s ability to make public policies. David Mayhew’s careful study of the most important pieces of legislation passed from 1946 to 1990 shows that the rate of production was about the same in periods of divided party control as in periods of unified control.
Sayfa 736
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
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