Everything about my politics has been about the future.
I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.
The Democrats throw money at the problems, and the Republicans tend to ignore them. The Natural Law Party goes beyond those approaches. It's about true change.
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know - education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government.
Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the debate that's coming.
I didn't get into politics so that I could take little bites around the edges.
I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.
A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
