A Quote by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.
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Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means of delivering what the public wants.
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I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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