"I think a core principle of the Democratic Party has to be a defense of equal rights for every American. At the same time, when you look at the election, and not just the 2016 election, but the elections to come, Democrats have to do better than we did in 2016 in communities, in rural communities where people feel like they've been in a slow burn recession or depression for years, not just months."

-- Neera Tanden

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“What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.”

Source : Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.494, University of Chicago Press
“Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist”
“The right to happiness is fundamental.”
“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
“Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart”
“To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes”
“The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, itâ€™s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you donâ€™t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.”
“I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.”

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