Sundy morning quotes with your coffee - Corporatism and Democracy

[marmar]

"No (real) journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists."
-- Chris Hedges

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"Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent."
-- Steven E. Landsburg

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"Yes, our regulatory agencies are incompetent. But they are incompetent by design."
-- David Goldstein

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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
--Aldous Huxley

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"Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen."
--Woody Guthrie

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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
--Lily Tomlin

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"....a CEO's dream team."
--Business Week writer Lorraine Woellert on corporate enthusiam over then-President George W. Bush's selections of Harriet Miers and John Roberts

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"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."
--F. Lee Bailey

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"....we have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development."
--Glen Ford, publisher of The Black Commentator

[malaise]

1. Thanks marmar

Great quotes

[Greyhound]

2. Nice collection, thanks. F. Lee's made it into my permanent reference. n/t

:kick: & R

[hobbit709]

3. From Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

he system of banking a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction... I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Thomas Jefferson