William Greider Quotes

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• If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing…
• The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
• In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.
• Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be…
• The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
• Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
• The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected…
• If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
• The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
• The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors…
• A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
• Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
• Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label…
• Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of…
• Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
• Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
• Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
• Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
• If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
• In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

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