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Quotes from The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good — Bob Rae

born 1948 Canada

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Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

Politics is about the persuasion required to move people to judgement.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

If the rising tide fails to lift all boats, resentments will increase.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

The idea of politics is in need of defence.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

We do not yet have a politics that is equal to the economics around us.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

" many on the right confuse the "is" of globalization with the "ought" of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

" Angry teachers can defeat governments,"

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

Governments steer better than they row.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

The premise of neo-conservatives is that markets left to their own devices will produce the best possible result, and that political interference is not required. This defies the human reality that people are not commodities, and simply refuse to behave as if they were.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.

The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bob Rae (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.