{"id":10139,"date":"2012-01-26T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2022-07-16T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T12:51:59","slug":"quotation-xxxii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=10139","title":{"rendered":"A better society."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My passion is not to cross some imaginary constitutional finishing line at some point in the future, and think \u2014 the race is won. Because the challenge that drives me is not the constitution, but the people, my aim is now, has been in the past, and always will be: to deliver a better society for the people of Scotland. It happens that we need full powers to do this but the people come before the powers, the community before the constitution, the children before the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland, 26 may 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">See also:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"Just as good.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=10157\"><code>01<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Alex Salmond about\u2026 elephants.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=25543\"><code>02<\/code><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My passion is not to cross some imaginary constitutional finishing line at some point in the future, and think \u2014 the race is won. 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