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The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.