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The Threats Are Coming To This Country, Which Will, Of Course, Increase The Massive Industry Known As The Anti-terrorism Industry, And Crush Our Civil Liberties And Civil Rights, And It's Devouring Our Priorities Here In Communities All Over The Country Which Are In Such Disrepair And Are So Neglected In Terms Of Public Works And Public Services.

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The Threats Are Coming

Ralph Nader

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The Threats Are Coming To This Country, Which Will, Of Course, Increase The Massive Industry Known As The Anti-terrorism Industry, And Crush Our Civil Liberties And Civil Rights, And It's Devouring Our Priorities Here In Communities All Over The Country Which Are In Such Disrepair And Are So Neglected In Terms Of Public Works And Public Services.

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I Once Said To My Father, When I Was A Boy, 'dad We Need A Third Political Party.' He Said To Me, 'i'll Settle For A Second.'

Members Of Congress Are Like The Voters In One Respect -- They Want To Go With The Winners.

This Country Has Far More Problems Than It Deserves And Far More Solutions Than It Applies.

There's No Better Policy In A Society Then Pursuing A Health And Safety Of Its People.

Once You Don't Vote Your Ideals ... That Has Serious Undermining Affects. It Erodes The Moral Basis Of Our Democracy.

You [jill Stein] Also Believe In A Full Employment Policy That Was The Majority Democratic Party Policy In 1946. They Actually Passed A Law To That Effect. You Want To End Poverty And When People See How Relatively Easy It Is To End Poverty. And One Way Is To Increase The Minimum Wage: Catch Up; It's Been Frozen For So Many Years.

The Debate Corporation Is A Corporation. It's Funded By Corporations. It's Relayed By Media Corporations To The Public. It's Created By The Two Parties, Which Are Corporations. We Should Have Public Presidential Debates All Over America Run By Public Institutions.

Ronald Reagan Is The Most Ignorant President Since Warren Harding.

Nothing Short Of A Federal Investigation Can Begin To Disclose The Abuses Which Have Woven A Fine Web Of Mutually Implicating Relationships Between Businessmen And Government Officials.

I Think Most People Would Like That: Probably Comes In About Ninety Percent. They See Their Public Works Crumbling, Services Inadequate, They Have Libraries And Schools And Bridges And Highways That Have Not Been Repaired.

For Over Half A Century The Automobile Has Brought Death, Injury, And The Most Inestimable Sorrow And Deprivation To Millions Of People.

If, During The Second World War, The United States Had Retooled Its Factories For Manufacturing Bicycles Instead Of Munitions, We’d Be One Of The Healthiest, Least Oil-dependent, And Most Environmentally-sound Constituents In The Nazi Empire Today.

In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, When I Report Saying That I Got About Five Minutes On All The Networks After Labor Day To Election Day: Only Five Minutes Even Though I, Like You, Were Representing Majoritarian Issues.

Like Sex In Victorian England, The Reality Of Big Business Today Is Our Big Dirty Secret.

Business Of Blurring Is Fantastic. They Both Are Playing The Politics Of Avoidance. They Avoid All The Issues On Corporate Power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, So On And So Forth. They Avoid All Those. That's The Politics Of Avoidance. All The Major Issues That Are So Much On People's Minds - Health Care, Living Wage, Public Works, Jobs - They Avoid.

Capitalism Will Always Survive, Because Socialism Will Be There To Save It.

Is There A Number Or Mark Planned For The Hand Or Forehead In A New Cashless Society? Yes, And I Have Seen The Machines That Are Now Ready To Put It Into Operation.

The 60th Seed At Wimbledon Gets A Chance At Center Court. The 60th Seed In The Ncaa Gets A Chance To Go To The Final Four. But The Third Seed [in Presidential Politics] Is Shut Out.

Hillary Clinton's Ready To Pivot To Asia And Provoke China. So Are The Republicans. It's On Domestic Issues That There Will Be A Gridlock.

John D. Rockefeller Wanted To Dominate Oil, But Microsoft Wants It All, You Name It: Cable, Media, Banking, Car Dealerships.

You See That Gap Is Exactly How They Can Marginalize And Exclude People From Giving The Voters More Voices And Choices.

The Use Of Solar Energy Has Not Been Opened Up Because The Oil Industry Does Not Own The Sun.

The Reason That Democracies Always Defeat Dictatorships Is Because They're Open To Debate. We Should Never Allow Washington To Say, 'shut Up, Get In Line And Wave The Flag.'

We Should Tax Things We Don't Like. We Should Tax Pollution ... And We Should Lighten The Taxes On Things We Do Like, Like Honest Labor, Like Food.

One Day At Princeton, I Noticed There Were Dead Birds On The Pavement Between The Campus Buildings, Where Very Large Trees Were. It Turns Out It Was Ddt. At The Time, In The Early '50s, No One Thought Ddt Was Dangerous To Anybody But Insects. I Went Down To The Daily Princetonian, The College Paper, And Tried To Persuade Them To Do A Story. They Said, "naw, There's Nothing Wrong." But That Taught Me A Very Important Lesson. One, That Newspaper People Can Get Very Jaded. Second, That You Might Know Something, Like An Expert Chemistry Professor, You Are Not Going To Apply What You Know.

In The Meantime The Big Corporations Are Fleeing America For Tax Havens And Places Like Ireland, Luxembourg And The Grand Cayman Islands; The Rich Are Finding More Tax Loopholes To Expect; So When Are The People Going To Basically Roll Up Their Sleeves And Say, We've Had Enough, We're Going To Recapture Congress.

The Threats Are Coming To This Country, Which Will, Of Course, Increase The Massive Industry Known As The Anti-terrorism Industry, And Crush Our Civil Liberties And Civil Rights, And It's Devouring Our Priorities Here In Communities All Over The Country Which Are In Such Disrepair And Are So Neglected In Terms Of Public Works And Public Services.

General Motors Could Buy Delaware If Dupont Were Willing To Sell It.

In 2000 The Majority Of People Wanted Me And Buchanan On The Debates In Two Thousand. And Me On The Debates In 2004. Have There Been Any Polls?

If You Know What's Going On And Know How Society Can Be Improved And Happiness Advanced, You Tend To Focus On How To Get Things Done That Will Help Health, Safety, Opportunity, Justice, Accountability Of Powerful Institutions To The People They Are Supposed To Serve.

When I Went To Harvard Law School I Became Interested In The Connection Between Legal Standards For Safety And Automobile Engineering Design. At That Time, It Was All Blamed On A "nut Behind The Wheel," So-called, The Driver. But I Knew That The Vehicle Had A Great Deal To Do With That Because I Had Come Across Some Air Force-sponsored Studies At Medical Schools. The Air Force Found They Were Losing More Men On The Highways Than In The Korean War.

Militaristic Foreign Policy Is Destroying America.

Secrecy Destroys Accountability.

Now Unless You Have Billions Of Dollars, It's Impossible To Reach Tens Of Millions Of American People No Matter How Hard You Campaign.

The Nation Is Faced With One Of The Most Corporate-orientated Anti-consumer Congresses In Our History.

Moral Courage Is The Highest Expression Of Humanity.

The Progress Of History Is To Take The Impossible And Turn It Into The Possible.

Ninety-seven Percent Of The Ceos Of The Fortune 500 Are White Men, And What They Do Radiates All The Way Down Into Poor Areas And Cities Around Our Country. Like Predatory Lending And Misallocation Of Municipal Services. These Guys Get Municipal Service, Poor Areas Don't. So They Run The Economy Into The Ground, And Who Suffers The Most? The Poor Pay More And They Die Earlier.

Annual Drug Deaths: Tobacco: 395,000, Alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' Drugs: 38,000, Illegal Drug Overdoses: 5,200, Marijuana: 0. Considering Government Subsidies Of Tobacco, Just What Is Our Government Protecting Us From In The Drug War?

Information Is The Currency Of Democracy. It's Denial Must Always Be Suspect.

We Have A Democratic Party That Cannot Defend The American People From The Worst Republican Party In History Because It's A Democratic Party Of War And Wall Street.

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Democrats Have Become Very Good At Electing Very Bad Republicans

The Various Social Security Privatization Schemes, Full And Partial, Would Cost Both The 'social' - That Is The Public, Cooperative, Societal - Element Of The Program And 'security' - The Rock-solid Income Guarantee Afforded By The System. It Should Be Rejected.

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What's Happening Is That The Will Of The People, The Declared Opinion Of The People, Who Want More Agendas, More Ideas, More Sensible Redirections Reforms In Our Country, Are Being Thwarted By The Mechanism Of Keeping Third-party Candidates, Who Are On More Than Enough States Theoretically To Get An Electoral Vote Majority, To Keep Them Off The Mass Media, The Commercial Media, To Keep Them Off The Debates.

The Shortcomings Of America's Political Leaders Do Not Stop At Our Borders.

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Up Against The Corporate Government, Voters Find Themselves Asked To Choose Between Look-alike Candidates From Two Parties Vying To See Who Takes The Marching Orders From Their Campaign Paymasters And Their Future Employers. The Money Of Vested Interest Nullifies Genuine Voter Choice And Trust.

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Jill Stein, Is - And I'll Make It In A Personal Way - Over Eighty Percent Of The People When I Ran For President Knew About Me But Then I Realized That When I Was Running, Eighty Percent Of The People Didn't Even Know I Was Running.

Today The Large Organization Is Lord And Master, And Most Of Its Employees Have Been Desensitized Much As Were The Medieval Peasants Who Never Knew They Were Serfs.

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Fifteen Dollars An Hour Minimum Wage. That Was One Of The Reasons Why So Many People Flocked To Bernie Sanders Candidacy.

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If You Don't Turn On To Politics, Politics Will Turn On You.

Families Are Incubators For Citizen Activists.

The Israeli Puppeteer Travels To Washington And Meets With The Puppet In The White House. He Then Goes Down Pennsylvania Avenue And Meets With The Puppets In Congress. The Israeli Leader Then 'brings Back Millions Of Dollars' In Aid To Israel.

One Time When I Was Nine Or Ten Years Old, I Came Home From School...and My Dad Said To Me, 'well, Ralph, What Did You Learn In School Today? Did You Learn How To Believe Or Did You Learn How To Think?' So, I'm Saying To Myself, 'what's The Difference Between The Two?'.

Nothing Can Stop The Power Of An Informed Citizenry When It Is Empowered, Organized, And Motivated.

Ford Motor Company's Sluggish And Piecemeal Approach To Its Automotive Responsibilities Betrays Motorists' Safety.

This Welfare For Wealthy Companies Wastes Taxpayer Dollars, Harms The Environment, And Makes A Mockery Of The Recent Reductions In Federal Social Spending Programs.

The True Danger Is The Expansion Of Empire And The Huge Diversion Of Public Budgets Overseas At The Neglect Of Domestic Necessities, Including, For Example, A Major Public Works Program To Employ Millions Of People. The Democrats Want That. The Republicans May Be Pressured From Back Home To Want It, But It Hasn't Happened Yet Under The Obama Administration.

If You're Kept Off The Debates, You Can't Reach More Two Percent Of People Even If You Campaign Every State And Fill The Big Conventions Like Madison Square Garden.

There Is Not Enough Self-consciousness About What A Family Can Be, About What It Can Inherit From Forbearers, And What New Traditions It Can Start As A Contributor To The Community.

That's Why I Call The Senate The Graveyard Of Democracy, Because Even When You Have 58 Senators, They Can Block It And Block It And Block It.

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What We Have Now Is Democracy Without Citizens. No One Is On The Public's Side. All The Buyers Are On The Corporations' Side. And The Bureaucrats In The Administration Don't Think The Government Belongs To The People.

Full Medicare-for-all, Free Choice Of Doctor And Hospital: That Comes In Sixty To Seventy Percent Without Even Further Explanation. And If You Ever Explained It, Given All The Trouble People Are Having Qualifying And Not Qualifying For All These Healthcare So-called Insurance Plans, It Would Go Up Even Higher.

The Food Industry, Its Trade Associations, And Research Foundations, Is Well Financed And Highly Organized To Pressure The Fda.

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The Democratic And Republican Parties, Two Apparently Distinct Political Entities Feeding At The Same Corporate Trough.

Your Best Teacher Is Your Last Mistake.

I Suppose The Green Party Doesn't Care For The Anti-civil Libertarian Provisions Of The Notoriously Named Patriot Act, Invading Privacy, And Being Able To Search Your Home, And Not Tell You For 72 Hours.

What's Interesting Is This Election Year Has Made The Citizen Groups Off-limits. All These Citizen Groups? - Local, State, National? - That Really Do Things And Improve The Country, They're Never Asked To Be In These Electoral Campaign Discussions.

This Country Has Been Strip-mined By Rich And Powerful Interests. If You Dont Like What They're Doing, Don't Just Sit There. Vote Them Out.

You [jill Stein] Want To Do Something About Student Debt. And That Affects Conservative And Liberal Students. That's Going To Be A Majoritarian Position.

I Finally Came To Washington. That's When Something Happened. The Motor Vehicle Act Of 1966, Even Though It Was Irregularly Enforced - Sometimes Very Little Under Richard Nixon And Ronald Reagan - It Saved Over 200,000 Lives, Millions Of Injuries Prevented Or Reduced In Severity.

The Concept Of Individual With A Conscience Is One Whose Highest Allegiance Is To His Fellow Man.

I Think Hillary Clinton Is A Militarist. She Is A Political Coward. The Interesting Thing About Hilary Clinton, Like Bill Clinton Dodging The Draft, He Never Touched The Pentagon - She Is In The Same Position.

Water Is The Most Precious, Limited Natural Resource We Have In This Country...but Because Water Belongs To No One - Except The People - Special Interests, Including Government Polluters, Use It As Their Private Sewers.

The Essence Of Globalization Is A Subordination Of Human Rights, Of Labor Rights, Consumer, Environmental Rights, Democracy Rights, To The Imperatives Of Global Trade And Investment.

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As I Was Saying, Half A Democracy Is Showing Up And People Have Got Not Only To Agree With This Agenda, Some Of These Third Parties Listeners, They've Got To Show Up.

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The Flow From Knowledge To Action Draws Upon The Complete Person With His Or Her Catalyst And Synergistic Potential.

The Corporations Have Become Our Government. They're Not Just Influential. Department By Department, You Name It, They Put Their People In High Government Positions, They Have 10,000 Pacs And 35,000 Lobbyists, So There's No More Opening To Be Heard.

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Companies Like Enron Have Learned That Small Investments In Endowing Chairs, Sponsoring Research Programs Or Hiring Moonlighting Professors Can Return Big Payoffs In Generating Books, Reports, Articles, Testimony And Other Materials To Push For And Rationalize Public Policy Positions That Damage The Public Interest But Benefit Corporate Bottomlines.

Congress Is The Most Powerful Branch. It Can Expand A Progressive Society, Or It Can Block A Progressive Society.

The History Of Successful Cases, Some Of Which Are In This Museum, Illustrates That Often The Regulators And Legislatures Don't Wake Up Until Some Plaintiff Gets A Lawyers And Digs Out The Cover-ups And The Incriminating Information About A Safety Defect In An Automobile Or Another Product.

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The Accountability Of Government Has Gone To The Point Where The Very Use Of The Law Is The Instrument Of Illegality.

Ending Police Brutality And Mass Incarceration. There Is A Growing Left-right Support For Criminal Justice Reform.

I Can Say That You [jill Sander] Are My Successor On The Green Party Ticket So I Know A Little Bit About What You're Going Through And I'm Sure Listeners Are Eager To Hear You Out.

In This Rigged, Two-party System, Third Parties Almost Never Win A National Election. It's Obvious What Our Function Is In This Constricted Oligarchy Of Two Corporate-indentured Parties - To Push Hitherto Taboo Issues Onto The Public Stage, To Build For A Future, To Get A Young Generation In, Keep The Progressive Agenda Alive, Push The Two Parties A Little Bit On This Issue And That.

A Wasteful Defense Is A Weak Defense.

There Are Very Significant Ways Around America On How To Break Its Grip, Which Is, Of Course, A Way To Exclude Dissenting Voices Before Tens Of Millions Of People.

Since I Was A Law Student, I Have Been Against The Death Penalty. It Does Not Deter. It Is Severely Discriminatory Against Minorities, Especially Since They're Given No Competent Legal Counsel Defense In Many Cases. It's A System That Has To Be Perfect. You Cannot Execute One Innocent Person. No System Is Perfect. And To Top It Off, For Those Of You Who Are Interested In The Economics It, It Costs More To Pursue A Capital Case Toward Execution Than It Does To Have Full Life Imprisonment Without Parole.

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Nuclear Power Must Be Dealt With Irrationally. . . . Nuclear Plants Are Carcinogens. Let's Get That Story Out. . . . Their Lies Will Catch Up To Them. We Need Endless Chernobyl Reminders.

As A Public Interest Lawyer, Your Fund Of Injustice Will Never Be Empty.

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This Policy Represents A Massive Injustice Against Iraqi Civilians, ... And It Must Be Ended - Not After Mr. Clinton Leaves Office, But Now.

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If It Is Unpatriotic To Tear Down The Flag, Which Is A Symbol Of The Country, Why Isn't It More Unpatriotic To Desecrate The Country Itself-to Pollute, Despoil And Ravage The Air, Land And Sea.

Hillary Clinton's Ready To Pick A Fight With Putin. So Are The Republicans.

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We Are Practicing What We Preach So That We May Preach What We Practice.

I Have A Consistent Rule: The American People Should Know As Much About The Pentagon As The Soviet Union And China Do, As Much About General Motors As Ford Does, And As Much About City Bank As Chase Manhattan Does.

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Everything Will Be Solar In 30 Years.

George W. Bush Is Very Vulnerable But Not If You Campaign The Way The Major Candidates - Except For Dean And Kucinich - Are Campaigning.

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We Don't Measure Whether An Economy Is Developing. We Just Measure Whether Companies Are Selling More, Whether Inventories Are Up Or Down, Not Whether The Health, Safety And Economic Well-being Of People Are Being Advanced.

Let It Not Be Said By A Future, Forlorn Generation That We Wasted And Lost Our Great Potential Because Our Despair Was So Deep We Didn't Even Try, Or Because Each Of Us Thought Someone Else Was Worrying About Our Problems.

Justice Needs Money; It Always Has . . . Whether For Abolition Of Slavery And Early Women's Rights Movements Or The Civil Rights And Environmental Drives Of Our Generation.

Abolition Of Slavery

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We've Got To Get Rid Of This Discrimination, This Chilling, This Bigotry Toward Gays And Lesbians That Are Reflected In Literally Hundreds And Hundreds Of Statutes And Regulations In This Country.

You Should Not Allow Yourself The Luxuries Of Discouragement Of Despair. Bounce Back Immediately, And Welcome The Adversity Because It Produces Harder Thinking And Harder Drive To Get To The Objective.

The Job Of A Leader Today Is Not To Create Followers. It’s To Create More Leaders.

The Function Of Leadership Is To Produce More Leaders, Not More Followers.

I Think We Should Make A Closer Link Between Domestic Policy And An Interventionist Militaristic Foreign Policy.

When Do Corporations Begin To Lose Their Credibility? They Fought Social Security, Medicare, Auto Safety. They Fought Every Social Justice Movement In This Country.

It Was An Injured Worker Finding A Lawyer On A Contingent Fee In A Little Town In Texas That Blew The Top Off One Of The Greatest Industrial Disasters In American History.

There Are Some People In This World Who Would Never Plant A Seed Because It Doesn't Produce Fruit The First Season.

If You Choose The Lesser Of Two Evils, You Are Still Choosing Evil.

The Corporate Lobby In Washington Is Basically Designed To Stifle All Legislative Activity On Behalf Of Consumers.

I Think George W. Bush's Personality Was Overwhelmingly Shaped In Negative Ways By His Upbringing.

That Could Be A High Water Mark For The Green Party In Its History. What Two States, I Can Only Guess, Aren't You Going To Be On Because Of Horrendous Obstacles To Getting On The Ballot.

We're Trying To Convey How Much Easier It Is Than Most People Think, Especially Young People, To Turn The Country Around If They Focus On The Levers, If They Focus On Congress, And State Legislatures.

Looking At Virtual Reality Through Computer Screens, Video Game Screens, And Above All Television Screens Is A Denial Of Personality Development. It's A Denial Of Socialization, Of Expansion Of Vocabulary, Of Interaction With Real Human Beings.

When I Go Up There, I See Coal Lobbyists, Oil Lobbyists, Natural Gas Lobbyists, Nuclear Power Lobbyists, Somehow They Think That's Where The Action Is In Congress.

If You're Not Turned On By Politics, Politics Will Turn On You.

The Institute For Global Labour And Human Rights... Have Pressured Retailers On Campus And Off To Publicly Disclose The Factory Names And Addresses.

[jill Stein] Don't Have To Engage In Soundbites Here As You May Have Experienced With Some Of The Mass Media.

We Live In A Two-party Tyranny That Doesn't Believe In Competition, Can Enforce It With Penalties And Obstructions, And They're Getting Closer And Closer To Being Both One Corporate Party With Two Heads Having Different Labels.

President Reagan Was Elected On The Promise Of Getting Government Off The Backs Of The People And Now He Demands That Government Wrap Itself Around The Waists Of The People.

When Strangers Start Acting Like Neighbors... Communities Are Reinvigorated.

All Empires Eventually Destroy Themselves. That's The Record Of History.

People Are Interested In Family Traditions, And I Think A Lot Of Families Can Benefit From Some Of The Ways That My Parents Dealt With The Challenges Of Raising Four Kids.

[as A Child] I Was Very Interested In Books That Detailed Injustice And How People Who Are Underdogs Were Mistreated Throughout History.

Family Values Stand Up To Injustice And Power Outside The Household.

National Security Is The Fig Leaf Against Freedom Of Information.

I Think Most Americans Are Ready For Waging Peace And Not Just Brutalizing Our Foreign Policy Which Is Boomeranging Against Us.

There Can Be No Daily Democracy Without Daily Citizenship.

Democracies Have

To Top It Off, For Those Of You Who Are Interested In The Economics, It Costs More To Pursue A Capital Case Toward Execution Than It Does To Have Full Life Imprisonment Without Parole.

We Must Strive To Become Good Ancestors.

We Have The Most Prolonged Adolescence In The History Of Mankind. There Is No Other Society That Requires So Many Years To Pass Before People Are Grown Up ... Adolescence Is Nurtured And Prolonged By Educational Processes And By Industry That Has Found A Bonanza In Embracing The Adolescent Population And Fortifying 'adolescent Values.' This Prolongation Of Adolescence Robs The Country Of The Population Group Having The Most Risk Takers, And The Highest Ideals.

It's Not A Cost Of Doing Business When The Corporation Executives Go To Jail, And That's Why They Fight So Hard To Make Sure The Prosecutors' Budget Are Very Limited And That The Campaign Cash-greased Lawmakers Keep Defending Them Against Being Held Accountable.

Whatever Your Issue Is, Whether It's Racism Or Homophobia Or Policy Issues Or Taxes Or Urban Decay Or Health Care, You're Not Going To Go Anywhere With It If We Don't Focus On The Concentration Of Power.

I Enjoy My Work So Much That I Have To Be Pulled Away From My Work Into Leisure.

The Lesser Of Two Evils, Or The Least Of The Worst, Is Not Good Enough For The American People Anymore.

Our Founders Did Not Oust George Iii In Order For Us To Crown Richard I.

It Is Basically A Strategy To Destroy The Essence Of Democracy, Which Is The Competitiveness And Choices Of Candidates On The Ballot.

I Hear People Who Are Worried About Climate Change Tell Me, Oh, Congress That's Gridlock, That's Not Where The Action Is.

I Don't Think Meals Have Any Business Being Deductible. I'm For Separation Of Calories And Corporations.

The Only True Aging Is The Erosion Of One's Ideals.

Arbitration Is Private. It Doesn't Have The Tools To Dig Into The Corporate Files. It's Usually Controlled By Arbitrators Who Want Repeat Business From Corporations Not From The Injured Person.

The Networks Are Not Some Chicken-coop Manufacturing Lobby Whose Calls Nobody Returns.

No Presidential Candidate Should Visit Las Vegas Without Condemning Organized Gambling.

It Is Fascinating To Watch Legislators Turn Away From Their Usual Corporate Grips When They Hear The Growing Thunder Of The People.

For Almost Seventy Years The Life Insurance Industry Has Been A Smug Sacred Cow Feeding The Public A Steady Line Of Sacred Bull.

The Only Difference Between The Republican And Democratic Parties Is The Velocities With Which Their Knees Hit The Floor When Corporations Knock On Their Door. That's The Only Difference.

By The Time You Rise Through The Ranks, The Culture Of Homogenization Has Bred The Spirit And Imagination Out Of You.

Competition, Free Enterprise, And An Open Market Were Never Meant To Be Symbolic Fig Leaves For Corporate Socialism And Monopolistic Capitalism.

The Whole Story Of Human History Is: The Blasphemy Of Today Is The Commonplace Of Tomorrow.

The Corporations Don't Like Open Courts Of Law, Trials By Jury. They Want To Privatize By Pushing People Into Compulsory Arbitration Where They Win Most Of The Time And The Whole Process Is Pretty Secret.

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