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.

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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."

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.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.