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Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofessional volunteer world is a laboratory for self-realization.

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Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

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Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

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Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

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Politics creates an almost endless time horizon into the future.... As governor I had the incredible luxury of being able to dream on a grand scale. And this sense of infinite possibility gives politics its romance.

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A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

Madeleine Kunin

Madeleine Kunin

Madeleine Kunin

Born: September 28, 1933 (age 91)

Bio: Madeleine May Kunin is an American diplomat and politician. She was the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999.

Known for:

Pearls, politics, and power (2008)
Living a political life (1994)
The big green book (1976)

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