Quote by Paul Wellstone
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. – Paul Wellstone

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The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better. – Paul Wellstone

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Future
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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. – Paul Wellstone

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Politics
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of peoples lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. – Paul Wellstone

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. – William Pitt

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power

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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power

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. – Plato

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power

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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power

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Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. – John L. Lewis

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Future

Ill confess right here that I secretly wish Id have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. – Berkeley Breathed

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Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years – and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush. – Ann Coulter

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