The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
Bernard CrickPolitics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
Bernard CrickThe plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
Bernard Crick