Bob Rae citations

Robert Keith Rae dit Bob Rae, né le 2 août 1948 à Ottawa , est un homme politique canadien, chef du Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Ontario du 7 février 1982 au 22 juin 1996. Il a été le 21e Premier ministre de la province canadienne de l'Ontario du 1er octobre 1990 au 26 juin 1995, et est le seul chef néo-démocrate à avoir occupé ce poste. Il a été le député libéral de la circonscription de Toronto-Centre à la Chambre des communes du Canada. Il a aussi été le chef intérimaire du Parti libéral du Canada de 2011 à 2015.

✵ 2. août 1948
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Bob Rae: 18 citations0 J'aime

Bob Rae: Citations en anglais

“The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again,, p. 91

“Governments steer better than they row.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again, p. 98

“Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: Taxes, Debts, and Deficits, p. 86

“The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Prosperity, p. 21

“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

“To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: Taxes, Debts, and Deficits, p. 64

“If the rising tide fails to lift all boats, resentments will increase.”

Bob Rae

Conclusion, If Not Now, When?, p. 202
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

“Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again, p. 95

“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

“History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Three, The End of Government?, p. 54

“" 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

“Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter One, The Rabbi's Three Questions, p. 3

“We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set.”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Six, The Second Question: Health, Education, and the Democratic Economy, p. 124

“Angry teachers can defeat governments”

Bob Rae

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Six, The Second Question: Health, Education, and the Democratic Economy, p. 121

“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

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