We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race... — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“The ease with which money forgives bayonets and lies to justify the massacre with reasoned arguments” — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people? — James Rosen Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military… — Alan Grayson Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power,… — Luis A. Ferre Copy Share Image
Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Bernie's campaign was very principled in most regards, I think, you know, he certainly didn't go far enough in questioning the military… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
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