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Geoff Mulgan Quotes

English - Educator | 1961 -

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

Change Moment Culture Politics You

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

Path Step Capitalism Answers Within

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

Real Other Mixed Impure Strains

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

Business Politics Religion Society

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

Special Out Decision-Making Market

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

More Nation Capable Democratic Far

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.

Government Independent Relationships

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

Matters More Behave Big Than How

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Love Rich Powerful Lost Moral

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

People Face Admiration Willing Lot

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

Change Fear Future Business Think

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

Anger Democracy Conversations Raw

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