Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. ”

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact. ”

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life. ”

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. ”

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations. ”

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values. ”

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself. ”

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ”

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget. ”

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. ”