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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances

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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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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power
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Paul Wellstone
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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. – Paul Wellstone

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Politics
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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. – Paul Wellstone

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Faith
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. – Daniel Webster

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Politics is gut commercials are gut. – Frank Luntz

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Politics

Some of the FDAs own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDAs actions. – Joseph Crowley

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Politics

Ill never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You cant go back in life. I wont go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. – Karl Rove

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We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. – Bill Maher

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And some of what were doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties. – Patricia Hewitt

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one. – Yiddish Proverb

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Its a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war. – George McGovern

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