You're never really out of politics.

The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and commitment and brains of the next generation. They've got to be big enough to reach out to those groups and say "come on in."

We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.