"My sermon for us Americans would be to construct the kind of institutions of mutuality and social cooperation that don't leave 15 or 20 percent of our people falling through the cracks. We can do it. It's not like we don't know what to do. It's not like there aren't models there. It's not like this isn't being done elsewhere. It's not like we can't afford to do it. It's a question of political will and it's about our definition as a people."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Glenn Loury

#Fall Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.”
“The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.”
“I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.”
“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta
“I am a private person and that has always been my personality.”
“We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.”
“To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.”
“What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.”

Source : "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". Interview with James Chapman, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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