Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.