Sanford Levinson quotes

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.
-- Sanford Levinson

#Trust #Political #Healthy

I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience.
-- Sanford Levinson

#Views #Serious #Conventions

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

A promise must never be broken.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.