Mark B. Cohen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.
There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

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