"Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the centre and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down into civil war, and spatial models of party competition will be irrelevant until order is restored."

“The foot, the pound, and the pint are all close to the size of many things used in daily life. In contrast, the metre, the kilogram, and the litre are all rather large, and the centimetre, the gram, and the millilitre rather small, for many practical uses.”

“There is no iron law here, but there is clearly some tendency for larger-than-necessary coalitions to disintegrate.”

“Evan Solomon: Just for the record that's pretty harsh stuff..”

“I want to illustrate the concept of a solution in mixed strategies with a concrete example using real-world data, but I have not been able to find an appropriate one from Canadian politics.”

“I prize every candle in the darkness of the universe, even if it is not a supernova of blinding illumination.”

“Ever since Comte first set the agenda of social science, his megalomania lingers on in sociology, political science, and other disciplines.”