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"There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power."
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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."
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"I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines."

"I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people."

"A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail."

"Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people."

"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine."

"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."

"Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future."

"The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better."

"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level."

"What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists."
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