Frasi di Bob Rae

Bob Rae è politico canadese.

✵ 2. Agosto 1948
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“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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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”

Origine: 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.”

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

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