The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too. — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
We've got to be prepared to stop these guys if they ever try to use their economic power once again, to hurt… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or… — Nicola Cabibbo Copy Share Image
Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes,… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power.… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries ,… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image