Walter Russell Mead Quotes

I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.

This country is going so far right you are not even going to recognize it.

We can’t change our government unless we change the people who run it.

A populist is someone who sees politics from an economic perspective rather than an ideological perspective. I’m a populist. The only thing that really matters is who is gets screwed and who is doing the screwing.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

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

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

Democracy is the least static form of society. Its basis is reason not authority.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Politics can't motivate people. The desire to get rich—that is the only way to mobilize the whole society.

Opening China to the world has dramatically affected the movement for democracy. The process of opening up is a process whereby the government loosens its control of the people. On the other hand, simply opening the economy is not enough. Very few people are actually able to enjoy the economic reforms. The privileged classes, or those who have connections with the privileged classes, enjoy more benefits from an open policy.