Bob Rae: Politics

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“The idea of politics is in need of defence.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Eight, The Need For Politics, p. 167

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

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Eight, The Need For Politics, p. 193

“" 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.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter One, The Rabbi's Three Questions, p. 7

“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.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Prosperity, p. 39-40

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

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Prosperity, p. 40