Alain Badiou Quotes

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

… a near revolutionary change in the democratic process

We [the Republican Party] are the change.

All politicians will have to change to be worthy of our people.

As the Independent Group, we are determined to try to forge a different style of doing politics.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.

People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

Donald Trump loves America. He wants it to be the greatest place on earth. He thinks political people have made it the mess that it is. And he's been very open and up front about how he goes about accomplishing things, and that's totally ignored.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.