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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live…
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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families…
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You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
— Lewis Black
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Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a…
— Warren G. Bennis
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I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I…
— Kenneth Lay
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Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit…
— Elaine Chao
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Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.
— Paul Begala
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I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I…
— Andrew Fastow
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The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of…
— Kenneth Lay
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Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize…
— Harry Browne
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We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
— Maria Cantwell
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But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.
— Kenneth Lay
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But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.
— Kenneth Lay
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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…
— Ralph Nader
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