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An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.
There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.
