Thomas E. Mann
Thomas E. Mann
Thomas E. Mannis the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth10 September 1944
CountryUnited States of America
Thomas E. Mann quotes about
religious thinking religion
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
respect past greatness
Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.
sympathy religious heart
I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
fashion variables uniforms
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
america democracy world
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
party mean race
The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.
life believe peaceful
A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.
progress path evolution
Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.
fate needs reason
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
joy emotion
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
order enemy answers
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.
love friendship mean
We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.
members states congress
Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
jobs war approval-rating
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.