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Robert Keith "Bob" Rae – polityk kanadyjski. Życie polityczne rozpoczął w partii NDP. W latach 1978-1982 był posłem do kanadyjskiego parlamentu, a od 1982 do 1996 był przewodniczącym swojej partii w prowincji Ontario, zasiadając w parlamencie prowincji. Po zwycięstwie swojej partii w wyborach prowincjalnych w 1990, był premierem Ontario do 1995. Po przegranych wyborach zrezygnował z kierowania partią i zasiadania w parlamencie w 1996, i zaczął pracować w sektorze prywatnym. W późnych latach 90. opuścił szeregi partii NDP, następnie stał się jej krytykiem.

Od 2002 zaczął wracać do aktywnego życia politycznego, wiążąc się tym razem z Partią Liberalną, 5 kwietnia 2006 oficjalnie prosząc o jej członkostwo. 24 kwietnia 2006 ogłosił że będzie ubiegał się o urząd przewodniczącego partii. W grudniu 2006, podczas konwencji partii, uzyskał trzecie miejsce . Po porażce Rae ogłosił że będzie ubiegał się o miejsce w kanadyjskim parlamencie. 17 marca 2008 wygrał wybory uzupełniające w okręgu Toronto Centre zdobywając mandat poselski. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Sierpień 1948
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Bob Rae: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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

“As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.”

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Preface, p. ix
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998)

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

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Źródło: 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.”

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

“Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.”

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Źródło: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Seven, The Three Questions and the Question of Canada, p. 158

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

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Źródło: 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”

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Źródło: 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.”

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