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“Well I think Assange should be assassinated actually. I think Obama should put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something. There's no good coming of this…”

Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Power and Politics with Evan Solomon, CBC Newsworld, November 30, 2010, 6:10pm.

Thinking

“But if politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation. Either player may surprise us again with a new move.”

Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 3, Stalemate At Lubicon Lake, p. 54.

Art , Dance , Painting

“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.”

Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 2, Game Theory, p. 30.

World

“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.”

Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 4, Models of Metrication, p. 64.

Life