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"In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."
"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."
"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership."
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
"I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other."
"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."
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